[ RadSafe ] Fwd: Condition of Fuel at TMI

[Jeff Terry]

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Jeff 

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> From: Laurence F Friedman <friedmanla at iit.edu>
> Date: August 5, 2011 6:48:26 PM CDT
> To: Jeff Terry <terryj at iit.edu>
> Subject: Condition of Fuel at TMI
> 
> Hi Jeff,
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> In answer to the question on RadSafe regarding the melting of fuel at TMI I have posted the following documents on the Galvin Library Health Physics page in the Government Documents Repository http://gl.iit.edu/govdocs/resources/hp.html:
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> ·         The Rogovin report to the NRC on the TMI accident.
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> ·         The vessel investigation report. The is the primary report of on international commission that examined the pressure vessel to determine its condition and how close it came to failure. There are also summary documents and a peer review of the report. The report contains considerable data on the nature of the material that “relocated” to the bottom of the pressure vessel and should answer the question that was posted.
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> This report (NUREG/CR-6197) is not available on the NRC web site. I had to request a hard copy, which was then scanned. It is, in my opinion, the best kept secret of the TMI accident, that the pressure vessel was nowhere near failure.
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> Laurie
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> Laurence F. Friedman, Ph.D., CHP
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