Saturday, May 18, 2013 The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. -
Connecticut's nuclear plant is preparing to ask federal
regulators for permission to use water that's even warmer than
the temperature that forced it to shut a unit last August.
Regulators were cool to at least two other suggestions by
Millstone Power Station in Waterford to operate with rising
water temperatures, according to emails among Nuclear Regulatory
Commission officials obtained by The Associated Press through an
open records request. One of the plant's two operating units was
forced to shut down for nearly two weeks last year because the
water in the Long Island Sound was warmer than the limit of 75
degrees that's in place to keep the plant operating safely. The
partial shutdown at Millstone was the first in the United States
to be caused by rising water temperatures, and the head of the
NRC has asked for a review of climate change impacts on nuclear
plants nationwide. Nuclear plants require large amounts of water
to cool equipment and bu