{"id":6085,"date":"2023-03-27T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T14:50:40","slug":"the-minnesota-nuclear-power-plant-is-closed-to-repair-a-water-leak-with-radioactive-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=6085","title":{"rendered":"The Minnesota nuclear power plant is closed to repair a water leak with radioactive compound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About four months after a nuclear power plant in central Minnesota experienced a leak of water containing a radioactive compound, the operator said it will shut down the facility starting this Friday to carry out repairs to a new leak.&#8221; immediately&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plant&#8217;s operator, Xcel Energy, said in a news release Thursday that the leak \u2014 near the Mississippi River \u2014 is limited to the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The monitoring team determined earlier this week that a small amount of water from the leak began reaching groundwater at the site, the operator said, coming a few months after about 400,000 gallons were released in an initial leak. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While the leak continues to pose no risk to the public or the environment, we decided it is best to shut down the plant and proceed immediately with permanent repairs,&#8221; said Chris Clark, president of Xcel Energy-Minnesota, North Dakota and Dakota from the south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the company, the shutdown is not expected to affect power service in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About four months after a nuclear power plant in central Minnesota experienced a leak of water containing a radioactive compound, the operator said it will shut down the facility starting this Friday to carry out repairs to a new leak.&#8221; immediately&#8221;. The plant&#8217;s operator, Xcel Energy, said in a news release Thursday that the leak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[2072,193,2071,2070,2073],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-minnesota","tag-news","tag-nuclear-power-plant","tag-radioactive-compound","tag-water-leak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}