Water pipes ruptured, moisture began to take its toll and the city's lax monitoring led to graffiti, vandalism and theft of many artifacts.
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A review of plant parameters did not uncover any precursor indicators before the accident nor were there any special operations that could have caused the pipe rupture.
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Japanese newspapers reported in Thursday morning editions that a pipe ruptured during the test, letting out a minute amount of radiation within the reactor but none outside.
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Guatemala City was instantly flooded when massive gaps opened in the streets, water pipes ruptured, and huts along with cathedrals disintegrated and collapsed, which also buried hundreds.
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The pipe rupture also forced the closing of New York University Medical Center's main emergency entrance, which is across First Avenue and slightly south of the construction site.
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Several utility employees have been fired after hot water pipes ruptured near St . Petersburg, killing a man and a child and scalding nine others, a news report said Tuesday.
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Regulators say the problems began at the reactor at 5 : 39 p . m . on Sunday, when an eight-inch metal pipe ruptured in the Hope Creek turbine building.
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Some regulators deem the risk too slight to warrant greater urgency, and Entergy, the company that operates Indian Point, says any pipe rupture would generate too little debris to clog its pumps.
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In the nation's deadliest nuclear power plant accident, five people were killed at Mihama in central Japan after a corroded pipe ruptured in August, spraying workers with boiling water and steam.
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In the late 1980s, Atherton had been approached by the water sector to examine some challenges with large diameter pre-stressed pipe rupturing, along with corrosion on the pre-stressing wires.
