(Oak Harbor-AP) -- There's a new reactor head
at the damaged Davis-Besse nuclear power
plant.
FirstEnergy is taking delivery of a reactor
cover from a Midland, Michigan, nuclear plant that
was never started.
Davis-Besse has been shut down since March. The
company discovered during routine maintenance that
acid had eaten through the six-inch thick steel
head that contains coolant in the reactor.
FirstEnergy spokesman Todd Schneider says the
company hopes to have the new cover installed and
the plant up and running by the end of the year.
The total repair cost will be close to 75
million dollars.
(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All
Rights Reserved.)