Re: NY Times - Safety Lapse at Ohio Reactor Cited as Potential Peril forOthers

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Ted, do you happen to know a percentage value of the "70 lbs of steel eaten away"?  Perhaps 70 lbs of a 70 ton vessel???? Just curious.

Besides, it is always easier and for most folks a greater emotional stimulus to wring one's hands over the half empty glass than over the

half full one. Anyway, I am curious what a commonly used reactor vessel might weigh if you happen to know.

Thanks,

Maury Siskel           maury@webtexas.com

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Ted de Castro wrote:



> > > Corrosion at the Ohio reactor, discovered in March, ate away 70 pounds of steel and left the reactor vessel vulnerable to rupturing.

>

> Isn't it interesting that way back when - just after TMI - the anti's

> kept harping the "we" were saying it couldn't happen - but IT DID and

> that settles it!  (although I don't personally remember anyone saying it

> couldn't happen).

>

> BUT - now when IT DID NOT happen - they keep harping it could have.



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