ML19330A838

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Requests That Facility Not Be Allowed to Continue Operating W/Faulty & Defective Steam Generator Tubes.Defective & Deteriorated Tubes Should Be Replaced Now.Situation Presents Potential for Another TMI-2 Incident
ML19330A838
Person / Time
Site: Point Beach NextEra Energy icon.png
Issue date: 07/22/1980
From: Kracht W
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
NUDOCS 8007290631
Download: ML19330A838 (1)


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U . s .e " ear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 To the Secretary:

I believe the Point Seach Huclear Plant No.1 should not be allowed to continue operating with faulty and defective steam generator tubes because of the potential for another Three Mile Island incident.

I've spent a considerable part of my adult life as fireman of high pressure steam boilers , and we were constantly impressed with the hazards and dangers of tube rupture and were shown pic-tures and slides of damage done under such conditions. The heat exchanger or steam generator as you descrioe it has the same potential for damage in case of a tiuoe rupture.

If the tubes are deteriorated and defective, they should be replaced now and not at some future date several years from now and in the meantime the Unit No.1 with the most tube problems should be brought to a Cold Shutdown immediately.

The incident at Three Mile Island happened almost 16 months ago, and according to news items the reactor is still not con- .

sidered a cold shutdown and probably never will be because with the near-miss to catastrophe that happened, there is possibility j of control rod damage, and we don't want that to happen in Two E Creeks at Point Beach. i

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