The U.S. Coast Guard pulled three Ohio men from Lake Erie Tuesday after their disabled boat was pushed into a breakwater near the Perry nuclear plant.A Coast Guard news release cited by the News Herald newspaper said a rescue boat found the men just after 3 p.m. By that point, waves were pounding their disabled 28-foot boat into the rocks near the plant, located 35 miles northeast of Cleveland. Guardsmen pulled the boaters from the water after they tried to swim to the rescue boat without life jackets through 2-to-4 foot seas and 15-mile-per-hour wind. The disabled craft was then towed to a public dock.No one was injured, and the plant continued to run at full power without incident. FirstEnergy operates a single 1,261-megawatt General Electric boiling water reactor with Mark III containment at the site first licensed in 1986, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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