Warm seawater forces Conn. nuclear plant shutdown
By STEPHEN SINGER Associated Press / August 13, 2012 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s nuclear power plant shut one of two units on Sunday because seawater used to cool down the plant is too warm. Unit 2 of Millstone Power Station has occasionally shut for maintenance or other issues, but in its 37-year history it has never gone down due to excessively warm water, spokesman Ken Holt said on Monday. Water from Long Island Sound is used to cool key components of the plant and is discharged back into the sound. The…read more