[Reactor at a Japanese nuclear power plant may be temporarily shut down due to pipeline leakage] September 18th, Japan's Kansai Electric Power Company said on the 18th local time that it had temporarily shut down the operation of the reactor unit 3 of the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture in the early morning of that day because of "the possibility of pipeline leakage." It is said that at around 15:45 local time on September 17, when staff were inspecting Unit 3 of the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant, they discovered water dripping around the exhaust valve of the pipeline. Kansai Electric Power Company stated that it was judged that this situation "will not have an immediate impact on the operation of the unit", but it still manually shut down the reactor at around 4 a.m. local time on the 18th. No timetable has been set for resumption of operations. Kansai Electric Power Company said that the dripping water "contains no radioactive material and will not affect the surrounding environment."