ML20084C502

Press Release Discussing GE Confirmed Trade Industry Repts That Tiny Hairline Cracks Found in Parts of Two Pressure Vessel of GE Built Atomic Power Plants Near Bombay,India. Cracks Similar to Oyster Creek Cracks

ML20084C502
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Site:	Oyster Creek, 05000000, 05000226
Issue date:	02/27/1968
From:	WALL STREET JOURNAL
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WALL ST. JOURNAL FEBRUARY 27, 1968 Y((b pyp Q" WALL ST. JOURNAL FEERU ARY 27, 1968 GE Has Cracking Problem At Atomic Plant in. India Ry a WAt.t.StartT Jovawat.staf Reporter NEW YORK-General Electric Co. con-firmed trade industry reports that tiny, hairline cracks had been found in parts of; two pressure vessels of the big atomic ,

power plant the company is building near Bombay, India. Pressure vessels contain the boiling water of the plant.

The tiny cracks are sirrilar to those found in the pressure vessels of the Oyster Creek atomic plant GE is building for Gen-eral Public Utilities near Atlantic City, N.J. The cracking problem has delayed completion of the Oyster Creek plant, but

.GE and Combustion Engineering Inc.,

bul: der of the vessels, believe the problem

' has been overcome.

GE said that the remedial procedures

! developed for the Oyster Creek vessel -

probably would result in speedy analysis and repair of the problem at the plant in

' India. , . .

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