Latest Onagawa Nuclear Power Station News & Updates

Tokyo, May 16 (IANS) The operator of the Onagawa nuclear power station in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, said that it will halt the facility’s No. 2 reactor after radioactive steam was detected within its turbine building. Tohoku Electric Power Co. on Friday said a small amount of radioactive steam was found in the reactor unit’s turbine building at around 5:10 p.m. local time, adding no radioactive materials had leaked into the environment and that the halt was for inspection purposes.T…