North Anna Nuclear Power Station breaks again, Virginia - Coinciding with the time of an earthquake.. Coincidence?

LOUISA, Va. (AP) - Dominion Virginia Power is repairing a leak in a steam generator pipe at its North Anna Nuclear Power Station in central Virginia but the company and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission say it doesn't pose any public threat.

The state's largest electric utility said Monday that workers doing repairs to one of the plant's reactors over the weekend noted a small amount of water seeping through a weld in a pipe. The work was being performed as part of the scheduled refueling process for the reactor.

Workers were upgrading three connections or welds between some of the steam generator pipes that are known to wear down over time due to heat and stress, said Dominion spokesman Richard Zuercher. Read More