The Nation - News from Oct. 15, 1985

A tube that drains non-radioactive steam from the turbine system at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant at Middletown, Pa., keeps springing leaks, a TMI spokesman said. Problems with the three-quarter inch metal tube that takes the steam from a line coming out of the reactor’s turbine unit began Saturday morning as workers were repairing a leak, said TMI spokesman Gordon Tomb. TMI officials lowered power to 5% and replaced the entire line. After the reactor returned to about 28% power, another leak was found Monday at a welding point on the line.