It was still operating at only 43 percent of its 280-megawatt capacity when the liquid sodium used as a coolant began leaking from the secondary cooling system on the evening of Dec . 8.
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The " Valiant " s had long careers : " Warspite " was decommissioned in 1991, and " Valiant " in 1994, due to cracks being discovered in her primary to secondary cooling system.
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The 280, 000-kilowatt reactor at Tsuruga, 335 kilometers ( 210 miles ), west of Tokyo, was running at only 40 percent capacity when a secondary cooling system, far from the core, ruptured Friday night.
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We were very lucky this time, because the problem was in a secondary cooling system far from the reactor core, and the reactor is running at low power because it is in a testing stage,
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Tons of non-radioactive sodium spewed from a secondary cooling system at the plutonium-based Monju reactor in Tsuruga, 330 kilometers ( 205 miles ) west of Tokyo, on Dec . 8, forcing operators to shut down the plant.
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The latest accident follows one in December 1995 in which a sodium leak in a secondary cooling system forced an emergency shutdown at the fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, 350 kilometers ( 220 miles ) west of Tokyo.
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During an accident at the Monju plant west of Tokyo in December 1995, operators delayed 90 minutes before shutting down a damaged fast-breeder reactor, leading to a spill of tons of caustic sodium in a secondary cooling system.
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The Tokyo-based company received three letters from a man who used to work for a subcontractor in western Japan saying he had improperly welded steel plates used to support pumps in the secondary cooling system of nuclear power plants.
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No one was injured in that accident, a sodium leak in a secondary cooling system, and no radioactivity escaped, but Donen was found to have concealed videotape footage that showed the extensive damage to the reactor . ( js-jc-bks)
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No one was injured in that accident, a sodium leak in a secondary cooling system, and no radioactivity escaped, but Donen was found to have concealed videotape footage that showed the extensive damage to the reactor . ( bks)
