The Mystery of the Missing Bolts: New York City's Stricken Indian Nuclear Plant

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The Mystery of the Missing Bolts: New York City's Stricken Indian Nuclear Plant

The Mystery of the Missing Bolts: New York City's Stricken Indian Nuclear Plant, May 24, 2016, Friends of the Earth and Fairewinds Associates

This report is a collaboration between Friends of the Earth and Fairewinds Associates, Inc. concerning findings at Indian Point Nuclear Plant in which multiple bolts integral to the structure of the reactors were missing and others present were badly damaged.

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Whose Fault?

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Whose Fault?

When we think of earthquake damage we think of buildings shaking and crumbling, pipes bursting and breaking. Diablo Canyon would suffer not only these traditional earthquake disasters, but also severe, dangerous mechanical threats. Arnie explains something engineers call "relay chatter". In three short video segments, he shows us what relays are and how a seismic event would wreak havoc at Diablo Canyon causing "relay chatter".

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San Onofre Fairewinds NRC Presentation

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San Onofre Fairewinds NRC Presentation

Fairewinds Associates, in this presentation on behalf of Friends of the Earth, shows that San Onofre was operating outside of its design basis and the NRC had done nothing to address this major violation. The tube failures at San Onofre are the worst nuclear equipment failures since the near miss at Davis Bessie in 2002.

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San Onofre's Steam Generators: Significantly Worse Than All Others Nationwide

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San Onofre's Steam Generators: Significantly Worse Than All Others Nationwide

Using NRC and Edison data, Fairewinds analysis determines that San Onofre had 3.7 times the number of plugged tubes than all the replacement steam generators in the US combined, and that 4,000 tubes show significant wear. 

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San Onofre's Steam Generator Failures Could Have Been Prevented

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San Onofre's Steam Generator Failures Could Have Been Prevented

Why did replacement steam generators fail after two years, when the original generators worked for 28 years? This Fairewinds Associates Report for Friends of the Earth determines that a strategic decision by Edison to avoid a more thorough NRC licensing review process contributed to the resulting crisis.

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San Onofre Cascading Steam Generator Failures Created by Edison

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San Onofre Cascading Steam Generator Failures Created by Edison

Imprudent Design and Fabrication Decisions Caused Leaks in 2012. Cramming 377 more tubes into each replacement generator than were in the original generators held affected reliability and safety. 

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Steam Generator Failures at San Onofre

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Steam Generator Failures at San Onofre

The Need for a Thorough Root Cause Analysis Requires No Early Restart. Fairewinds recommends that Units 2 and 3 remain shut down until a thorough Root Cause Analysis determines the cause of rapid tube failures are understood and repaired, reliability is assured, and radioactive releases are prevented.

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