- MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish
nuclear power station has been shut indefinitely because of a small missing
screw weighing just four to five grams that fell off a machine during refueling,
nuclear officials say.
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- The Zorita plant, located in the central Castille-La
Mancha region, cannot reopen until a full report on the screw is completed,
a spokesman for the national Nuclear Security Council told Reuters on Monday.
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- Staff searched for the screw with cameras, but after
failing to locate it on film, they concluded it must have slipped into
an area of the reactor that was inaccessible to cameras, the spokesman
said.
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- He said it was unlikely the missing screw would present
any risk.
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