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Potential defects shipped to Farley reactors and four others

No worries about this reactor coolant system defect; Westinghouse says so,
and didn’t even list Vogtle or Diablo Canyon, where Southern Company
and PG&E said they were going to install these shields.
Nevermind a reactor operator warned us back in January.
Westinghouse did list “Beaver Valley Unit 2, Callaway, D.C. Cook Unit 1, Farley
Units 1 and 2, and Wolf Creek”.

NRC Event Notification Report for July 29, 2013

Event Number 49217:

POTENTIAL EXISTENCE OF DEFECTS IN SHIELD PASSIVE THERMAL SHUTDOWN
SEAL SYSTEM



“The defect being reported concerns an identified inconsistency
between the intended design functionality of the SHIELD passive
thermal shutdown seal (SDS) and that observed during post-service
testing.

“The purpose of the SDS is to reduce current reactor coolant system
inventory losses to very small leakage rates for a plant that
results in the loss of all reactor coolant pump (RCP) seal cooling.
The SDS is a Continue reading →

Korean nuke supplier for Plant Vogtle forged documentation for “a host of nuclear reactors”

Korea’s Doosan supplied that
that train-wrecked Plant Vogtle reactor vessel later

left unprotected sitting at Savannah port,


as well as parts for more than a dozen U.S. reactors.
And Doosan, according to the Korean government,
forged documentation that just shut down “a host of nuclear reactors”
in Korea, whose Prime Minister said,

“Those found to be involved in wrongdoing or corruption must be
sternly punished by the law, regardless of their rank and status.”

According to World Nuclear News 5 June 2008,

Doosan awarded further contract by Westinghouse, Continue reading →