Published: February 2nd, 2012 at 9:52 pm ET
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Title: Inspectors find ‘unusual’ wear on new tubes carrying radioactive water at Calif. nuclear plant – The Washington Post
Source: AP
Date: February 2, 2012
Unusual wear has been found on hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water at Southern California’s San Onofre Unit 2 nuclear plant, raising questions about the integrity of equipment the company installed in a multimillion-dollar makeover in 2009. [...]
“The amount of wear that we are seeing on these tubes is unusual for a new steam generator,” NRC spokesman Victor Dricks said. “If you have that kind of thinning anywhere along the length of the tube, you have a problem because it degrades the integrity of the tube, which can contribute to leaks.” [...]
The company said there was no indication the heavy tubing wear is related to terrorism. [...]
Retired NRC engineer and researcher Joram Hopenfeld
- “I’ve never heard of anything like that over so short a period of time”
- “The safety implications could be very, very severe”
- “Usually the concern is in older steam generators, when they have cracks all over the place”
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Published: February 2nd, 2012 at 9:52 pm ET
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Seriously, "groundwat er", think, pacific ocean, tides, twice daily......
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WEll when the USA no longer makes steel and its all purchased from other nations..WHO cares if the item is flawed? Just stamp stupid in the middle of your forehead. Did you know the steel and stainless steel now must be purchased outside the USA? And the stainless steel–is no longer good for the 20 yrs the previous steel was to last? 5 years MAX with the new, poor quality steel from ??? We get what we deserve when critical elements of nuclear facilities can not be produced in our own country.JUNK.
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Your comment made me think back on a link someone posted on how the DOE allows radioactive material into the marketplace.
Here’s a quote from the link:
“[...]release of an estimated 112,000 tons of radioactive nickel, copper, aluminum and steel scrap into commerce in the US and abroad. Once into general use, the radioactive metal can be recycled, reused and resmelted over and over again, disseminating radioactivity and multiplying exposures to the public and workers in any encounter with metal objects.”
The link is from 1997, so maybe a lot more radioactive metal has entered the market by now.
I wonder if this radioactive metal is weaker than non-radioactive metal. Just a thought.
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/BNFL+DOE.html
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But hey. It’s so good for the bottom line.
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Right on jec! Rumor has it that workers, standing in the vicinity of the steam generators as the tubes failed, one by one, could hear chink! chink! chink!
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Amen, Jec, Amen!!!
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Cheap crap from China???
My grandparents home went up in flames when a bathroom exhaust fan made in China started an electrical fire due to reversed polarity!
My kids new toy pottery wheel has a battery pack that won’t fit batteries…more Cheap Crap from China! Whattya expect from slave labor?
At least when China took all our steel mills, they took the fluoride releases with them…soon their kids IQs will drop much like they did in the US (I think its synergistic with uranium in the human brain just like a smelting pot or a gaseous diffuser)
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As Gomer Pyle would say, SURPRISE …SURPRISE…SURPRISE!!!..I guess that’s what happens when TPTB out source all our industry and good paying jobs. Yeah, all that that high quality product coming out of China and going into critical areas like say nuclear reactors sure makes me sleep real good at night Well SHAZAAM !
Give me a whole heaping portion of that there globalization and One World Govt.
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Tens of thousands of intricate parts made of dubious quality materials, manufactured in a questionable fashion, installed by poorly trained employees of the lowest bidding contractor, and maintained by a dodgy corporation with a singular focus on the bottom line. You start to get the picture, no?
Shut ‘er down, California:
http://californianuclearinitiative.com/
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kid42, you could add
and “overseen” by a captured regulatory agency,
or
a regulatory agency designed to capture OUR incredulity and shape it into acceptance.
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“…there was no indication the heavy tubing wear is related to terrorism…”
Oh, thank goodness. I was worried those Muslims were degrading our pipes again.
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+100
That’s exactly what crossed my mind!
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Thanks JonahW ! LOLed !
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LOL… but with reservation. At what point do we get to label the nuclear industry and its lapdogs at NRC to be terrorists? They sure seem hell bent on mass murder of innocent civilians.
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From The Orange County Register;
“All four of the plant’s steam generators and their tubes are about two years old, installed after being delivered to the West Coast by the Japanese manufacturer of the generators, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.”
Ah so…
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Any chance they just never replaced the original pipers but just claimed the money was spent to do so? Im becoming mOre and more convinced organized crime has a hand in nuke power…
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We know the only difference between TEPCO and the yakuza is the design of their corporate logo. It’s a pretty sure bet Mitsubishi and the yakuza are thicker than thieves as well. The mob runs Japan. They learned all about how that works by studying American Corporate/Governmental Structure.
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“no indication the heavy tubing wear is related to terrorism. [...]“.
Who writes this plants press releases, Dick Cheney?
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Are your jeans worn before their time? Al Queda. Did your garden hose fail after one summer’s use? Al Queda. Did you just replace your windshield wipers again? Al Queda. Yes, Al Queda has mastered the technology behind the AWB – the Accelerated Wear Beam. Sure you want to cross the Brooklyn Bridge now?
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Right on Radegan.
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The Empire seems to delight in self-inflicted wounds. Ain’t it awful!
http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/hate.htm
um… SHUT THEM ALL DOWN (Nukes, nukes, nukes)
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probably made the steam generator in China with no quality control on the materials used. helped increase the companies profits.
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