Michigan's Fermi Nuclear Powered Down Due to Leak

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, which is located in Newport, Michigan, was reduced to 55% capacity Monday morning. The station is owned by Detroit Edison, a subsidiary of DTE Energy (NYSE:DTE) (Detroit, Michigan).

Plant personnel identified a leak and decided to run the unit at a reduced level, as opposed to undergoing an outage. The leak was discovered in one of the unit's condenser tubes, and repairs are under way as the unit remains online.

The unit will remain at approximately 617 megawatts (MW), which is about half of the plant's capacity, for the remainder of the week, with plans to return to full power Friday.

When running at full power, the plant produces 1,122 MW.

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