Tiny screw screws up nuclear plant

A small screw missing from a tool used to refuel a 35-year-old nuclear power plant led technicians on a fruitless two-day search and has delayed the facility from coming back on line.

After the month-long refuelling operation at the plant – already branded as unsafe by environmental groups – operations at the Juan Cabrera nuclear power plant in Almonacid de Zorita, 45 miles east of Madrid had been due to resume this week.