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- From: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <51736@seismo.CSS.GOV>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:51:44 GMT
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- In article <58188@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- > methods are large, their effectiveness is not known. The NRC shut down
- > Yankee Rowe precisely because its containment vessel showed signs of
- > losing enough ductility to make its continued operation dangerous. The
- > utility chose to decomission rather than to attempt annealing. The
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- Why not take a chunk of vessel to a lab and see exactly what annealing
- treatment will restore ductility? Then simply design new reactors with
- an installed annealing system - annealing could be performed as part of
- regular maintainance every few years.
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- Richard Stead
- Center for Seismic Studies
- Arlington, VA
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