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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <58197@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 16:09:16 GMT
- References: <58188@dime.cs.umass.edu> <51736@seismo.CSS.GOV>
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- In article <51736@seismo.CSS.GOV> stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- >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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- This would not affect the projected lifespan of current reactors, and
- might not provide an accurate indication of how weld points or different
- topologies or larger chunks of metal will behave in situ.
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