During Palisades refueling shutdown, flaws discovered in control rod drive housings [View all]

[madokie]

Another issue with the same plant as Kristopher posted here http://www.democraticunderground.com/112765708

Nuclear Power Plant's shutdown for refueling and maintenance, flaws were found in more than a dozen of the control rod drive mechanism housings, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported Jan. 30.

The Covert Township nuclear power plant was removed from service Jan. 19. The inspections took place over the past several days and Entergy Corp., which owns Palisades, reported the flaws to the NRC Jan. 29.

Flaws were found in 17 of the 45 CRDM housings, the NRC said. However, there is no evidence that a leak occurred before the Jan. 19 shutdown, spokeswomen for both the NRC and Entergy Corp. said. The NRC said that the issue had no adverse affect on the public's safety or of the power plant's employees.

"There was no evidence of leakage before the shutdown," said Viktoria Mitlyng, senior public relations officer for the NRC."The plant was already shut down for a refueling outage when the CRDM housing exams were performed and remains shut down as the refueling outage work continues.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/01/crdm_housing_issues_discovered.html

Could it be that these damn things are wearing out? Naw surely not, they're designed to last forever and ever, RIGHT? dm