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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Southern California Edison Releases Steam Generator Tube Wear Data


Southern California Edison Releases Steam Generator Tube Wear Data
Power Engineering Magazine
Southern California Edison (SCE) has released steam generator tube wear data associated with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The data show that most of the wear, or tube wall thinning, was less ...
 

Attrition found in 15000 spots in Japan-made tubes at US reactors
Power Engineering Magazine
The number of incidents of abnormal attrition found in Japanese-made steam generator tubes in two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant in southern California has reached around 15000, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report ...

New details about problems at San Onofre nuclear power plant

Los Angeles Times - ‎Jul 14, 2012‎
Data released by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a leaked analysis by Southern California Edison provide some new insights into the situation at the San Onofre nuclear plant. The plant has been shuttered since Jan. 31, when a small leak in one ...

San Onofre nuclear power plant: More dangerous than imagined

RT - ‎Jul 13, 2012‎
More than six months after regulators ordered an intense probe of a California power plant, authorities say that conditions at the San Onofre nuclear facility are actually much worse than ever thought. “This reveals a far greater problem than has been ...

Southern California Edison Releases Steam Generator Tube Wear Data

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Jul 13, 2012‎
ROSEMEAD, Calif., Jul 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Southern California Edison (SCE) has released steam generator tube wear data associated with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Fears over US nuclear plant problem

News24 - ‎Jul 13, 2012‎
US nuclear regulators published an update on California's San Onofre power plant, sparking an expert warning that the problem is more serious than first thought. (Mary Ann Chastain, AP) An old fashioned story by Mary Louisa Molesworth (1836-1921).

Tube wear detailed at CA nuke plant

San Jose Mercury News - ‎Jul 12, 2012‎
LOS ANGELES -- Federal regulators Thursday disclosed the most detailed information to date on damage at California's idled San Onofre nuclear power plant, where thousands of tubes that carry radioactive water have eroded at an alarming rate.
 
 

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