On Monday, December 15, 2014 4:05 PM, SNC Communications issued the following news release:

Status of Farley Unit 2 and Plant Hatch units 1 and 2:

SNC Communications was contacted today by John Daniel of WOOF-FM in Dothan, Bill Freebairn of Platts, Christine Buurma of Bloomberg and Koustav Samanta of Reuters regarding the status of Farley Unit 2 and Plant Hatch units 1 and 2. Michelle Tims responded with the following statement:

Southern Nuclear’s top priority is the safety and health of the public and our employees. We are committed to the safe operation of our nuclear generating facilities with equipment and systems that meet rigorous NRC safety and design regulations.

On Friday, Dec. 12, operators at Plant Farley safely shut down Unit 2 after receiving an indication of a steam leak in a secondary system inside the containment building.

Also on Dec. 12, Plant Hatch operators safely shut down Unit 1 for a planned maintenance outage. During the outage, employees are replacing the seals on a pump.

This morning, operators reduced the power of Plant Hatch Unit 2 to repair a tube leak in the main condenser.

As repairs are completed, employees will safely return the units to full operational power.

For competitive reasons, we cannot say when the units will return to full power.