Japan's Tohoku to shut nuclear unit after oil leak

Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:48am EDT
 
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TOKYO, June 11 (Reuters) - Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power Co (9506.T) said on Thursday it started manually shutting down its 524-megawatt Onagawa No.1 nuclear reactor earlier in the day after identifying an oil leak. There was no radioactive impact outside the plant, a company spokesman said. (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori)

 

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