Sunday, April 24, 2011

NRC says VY HPCI is obsolete

Message 45 and Feb 22, 2010 on topix

Yep, it was a flexitallic gasket thing...they didn't have the proper replacement gasket on site, so they had to special order if from Texas, and you how long the shipping takes from across the country.

As NRC resident Dave Spindler says, "its a obsolesce thing" with not having adequate and the appropriate safety grade spare parts on site at the plant. The HPCI is obsolete? Dave said its going on at every plant in the nation.

Entergy had to do a engineering equivalency thing, cause they had to manufacture it in Texas, meaning it is not a identical replacement.

By the way, RCIC is not a standby system from HPCI...all of these components are suppose to operational when the fault hits the plant...their design accident.

So as Dave said according to the NRC...it doesn't matter to the NRC if the repair took 13 days or the gasket was replaced immediately within a few hours with a on site spare repair part....the NRC doesn't care if we are fully prepared for a design accident or partially prepared.

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