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Bond In Investing Stock The generator tubes are nearly identical to one that burst 18 months ago at a plant in Indian Point, N.Y., leaking radioactive steam into the atmosphere.
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Bond Terms Trading The plant is designed to accommodate the failure of a tube, said Glenn Meyer, NRC branch chief for the Salem plants.
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Basis Bond Finance Hill Thats not to say it absolutely cant happen, Meyer said. Multiple tube failures: Can they happen? We cant definitely say no. Thats what we are pursuing.
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Bond Business Investing Stock NRC officials said a single tube failure is unlikely, because plant operator Public Service Electric and Gas plugs tubes when they are corroded 40 percent of the way through. The pencil-thin tubes are tested for cracks using radio waves.
Bond Houston Houston Although current testing methods dont typically discover a tube that is only 40 percent cracked, tubes in a high-pressure generator can withstand a crack 85 percent of the way through, said Joseph Muscara, an NRC senior metallurgical engineer.
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Investment Bond Uk Generators in Indian Point Unit 2 and Salem Unit 2 both use the same size and type of nickel-alloy tubing. But NRC officials have told Unplug Salem coordinator Norm Cohen that a direct comparison between the two generators is inappropriate, because the Salem tubes have been heat-treated.
Bond Trading Strategy On Thursday, Cohen asked the NRC panel to provide certification of the heat treatment. But the nuclear officials said only PSE&G has that information.
Bond Fixed In Income Investing Cohen and Lochbaum questioned whether it was worth the risk to keep the plant running while the NRC resolves the question of tube failures in older nuclear steam generators.
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The Press of Atlantic City - 8/18/2001
Topic: Nuclear
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