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Recommends Action to Be Taken on Contract 3-13 to Prevent Excessive Cooldown That Plant Experienced During Loss of Station power.SPR-158,natural Circulation Level Setpoint Should Be Reduced to 50% on Operate Range
ML20024B267
Person / Time
Site: Oconee, Crane  
Issue date: 02/07/1974
From: Karrasch B
BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.
To: Pittman R
BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.
References
TASK-03, TASK-06, TASK-11, TASK-3, TASK-6, TASK-GB GPU-2404, NUDOCS 8307080141
Download: ML20024B267 (2)


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