Bad Decisions
Bad Decisions
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This one caught my eye because not only is it a structural issue, but my old employer is involved. I can picture heads rolling right now, if they haven't already.
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I worked in the nuclear industry for about 15 years, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why they didn't make the hatches in the containments big enough to get the steam generator (a piece of equipment prone to wear and tear) out. I guess they thought they would last the lifetime of the plant.
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What could possibly go wrong!
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But that would be for the original sized SG - A larger steam generator - even if only by only a few inches to the tip of a nozzle or the diameter of the PV - would make the new one too large to fit through the removal path.
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JedClamptt not sure what location your were at but any chance you know a Prof. John O'Leary?
EIT
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It's not at all clear to me that doing things the "right" way would have prevented the problem. That seems to be the assumption, but since the problem basically hadn't happened before, I would think the cause is a good bit more indefinite than supposed.
Had they hired Bechtel or others in the first place, regardless of the outcome, somebody could be writing an equally scathing article about them blowing millions of bucks when they had people on their own staff who had done this etc etc. Hindsight is wonderful.
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Yes, It would have been some time ago and most likely the Chicago office, he now is a professor at IIT or has been for a while I should say.
JStephen-
Very true.
EIT
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Radial shear and inter-laminar tension are also "gotchas". They're very easy to overlook, but are significant in any thin curved shell.