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Title: Regulators to hold meeting on plans to repair 1,400 cracked tubes at shuttered n
Post by: Marlin on Jan 14, 2025, 11:02
Regulators to hold meeting on plans to repair 1,400 cracked tubes at shuttered nuclear plant

https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2025-01-13/regulators-to-hold-meeting-on-plans-to-repair-1-400-cracked-tubes-at-shuttered-nuclear-plant?utm_medium=email
Title: Re: Regulators to hold meeting on plans to repair 1,400 cracked tubes at shuttered n
Post by: Mounder on Jan 14, 2025, 03:25
"But what assurances can you give us that another one of the other 8,000 tubes won't crack in the next operating cycle?" Blind said."[/i]

It's a PWR and not a BWR. There's no radioactivity because the tubes are part of the secondary loop.  Are they concerned that it will be inefficient?