...refer to tests related to the design of these 10-month old steam pipes, which resulted in a pipe design that is 1/4 the actual pressure capacity it was supposed to be designed to operate under. They spent $600 million for these new pipes. What a bunch of wankers!
The result: pipes are now so badly corroded that they could fail and possibly cause a guillotine failure of the adjacent pipes (all of which cool the reactor), which could then result in a catastrophic release of radiation -- without any type of containment or control.
These new steam pipes were just installed and have been operating for only 10 months although they were supposedly designed for 30 years of use. And the plant operator Edison, had wanted the NRC (No Regulatory Controls) to approve them to operate the plant at half power as a ''work-around'' for the design problems. Totally ignoring the fact that the system was never designed for this, that it presents the same problems as before, and the existing corrosion already evident will only get worse since some pipes were found to have high levels of degradation and corrosion.
And to make matters even worse than they already are, today they find that the backup power supply is off-line. So if they were up and running now and lost coolant capability, they wouldn't even have backup power to continue cooling the rods.
- It's time to end this.
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