Water and Energy Abstracts
Open Access
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 1

111. All Eyes on Texas

  • Author:
  • Thomas Smith, Martha Wiese
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 41 to 41

(Power Journal, November/December 2003, pp. 47–49).

Abstract

Getting caught with white powdery substances will always get you in trouble. Not with the police, but – if you operate a nuclear reactor – with the NRC. Here's Power's exclusive look at the behind-the-scenes work that got South Texas Project Unit 1 back on-line after the discovery and repair of two flawed reactor vessel penetration nozzles.

Keywords

Powdery, Reactor vessel penetration nozzles