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The Nation - News from June 4, 1986

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported a serious mechanical failure of a water pump at the LaSalle nuclear power plant that was not relayed to the NRC until 13 hours after it occurred, agency officials said. However, the NRC and company spokesmen stressed that the public was never endangered by the malfunction, which was quickly corrected, and that no radiation was released from the plant near Marseilles, Ill.

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