Aug 14, 2012

Warm seawater forces Conn. nuclear plant shutdown | provides half of all power used in Connecticut

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's nuclear power plant shut down one of two units on Sunday because seawater used to cool down the plant is too warm....

...Millstone provides half of all power used in Connecticut and 12 percent in New England. Its two units produce 2,100 megawatts of electricity, which is reduced by 40 percent with Unit 2 down, Holt said.

"Generators are big machines," she said. "It happens frequently that resources are unable to start up or have to power down."

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