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Bond In Investing Savings A reactor at the Salem nuclear plant has cleared a federally mandated inspection prompted by the discovery of severe corrosion at a similarly designed plant in Ohio, plant officials said Monday.

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Bond Investment Toledo Toledo Salem Unit 2 was shut down for refueling two weeks ago, allowing a full visual inspection of the reactor head. No problems were found, plant spokesman Skip Sindoni said.

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James Bond Trading Card The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC, last month ordered the operators of 68 pressurized water reactors to immediately evaluate whether corrosion could be affecting their facilities.

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Bond In Investing Stock The order came after inspectors at Davis-Besse, near Toledo, found a football-sized hole had eaten nearly through the plant's 6-inch-thick steel reactor head. A three-eighths-inch stainless steel liner inside the reactor head was all that contained the plant's pressurized cooling water.

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Municipal Bonds Investment The corrosion was caused by boric acid, which is added to reactor cooling water but is not supposed to be on the outside of the reactor.

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Bond Terms Trading The acid escaped through minor leaks and was hidden by insulation atop the reactor head, according to the NRC.

Bond Debt High In Inside During the Salem inspection, operators removed the insulation that covers the reactor head and looked for any signs of boric acid deposits that could be an indication of a leak, Sindoni said.

Bond Greenville Greenville The examinations were conducted by two certified inspectors and were observed by the NRC, he said.

Trading Stock And Bonds No deposits were found and the plant operators are 100 percent confident there are no indications of leaks and no indications of any corrosion due to the presence of boric acid, Sindoni said.

Bond Investing Municipal A similar inspection of Salem Unit 1 was completed in the spring of 2001 and no evidence of boric acid deposits or corrosion was found. The Salem Unit 1 reactor head is planned for another visual inspection during the fall 2002 refueling outage.

Basis Bond Finance Hill The Hope Creek plant, adjacent to the Salem plants, and the Oyster Creek plant in Ocean County are boiling water reactors and not subject to the order.

Bond Explained Terms Trading The Salem and Hope Creek plants are operated by PSEG Nuclear, a subsidiary of PSEG Power, an affiliate of Public Service Electric and Gas Co.

Bond Business Investing Stock By Jack Kaskey
The Press of Atlantic City - 4/23/2002

Topic: Nuclear

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