Junk Nuclear Industry worldwide: Why is Falsification of Documents So Easy

I can't begin to tell you how much resources, money and reputations have been ruin worldwide by the falsification of documents in the nuclear industry. Why is this so easy? Why can't it be detected and eradicated immediately. 

Inaccurate documents are just as bad as falsified documents. Inaccurate documents should be treated identical to falsified documents. There is never any excuse to depend on a incomplete or inaccurate documents in the nuclear industry.  

I can tell you what is going on here, we have terrible degraded the global immunity system that is supposed to catch this when it first immerges. It is basically a no fault system for document falsification and the gross industry's tolerance of inaccurate documents.

It's all profits and paychecks before truth.

I think any component coming from the French Forge should be assumed to be inop.

They way to stop this is to knock heads together. Guys, it is the too big to fail philosophy. Any one plant or giant corporation like Areva is to big too shutdown or fail. The regulatory authorities worldwide have been made to weak to maintain standards, control document falsification and inaccurate documents. The giant nuclear corporations with their enormous power and influence has made government too weak.

You get it, all these guys are angling for the privatization of the regulatory function. It is the independent oversight authorities mostly disconnected from the community. These independent commission are too susceptical for the corporate to install their "yes men" as the heads of the independent commissions.

If we lived in a healthy world, Areva would have been banded from doing any nuclear power plant work worldwide. Right, Mitsubishi is in the same light. Mitsubishi should have gone directly, made a early complaint to the NRC, saying the steam generators are dangerous to the industry. Everyone is in this giant intimidation game and they can't say boo if they want to get a paycheck!!!

***Why is intimidation of employees too easy in the worldwide nuclear industry.*** Why is everyone so insecure?       

 

Steam generator anomalies to extend Fessenheim 2 outage

20 July 2016

A serviceability certificate for one of the three steam generators installed at unit 2 of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant, currently offline for maintenance, has been suspended by the French nuclear safety regulator. A number of anomalies were discovered last month in the steel of the component's lower shell.

Last month, EDF informed the ASN that parts of some steam generators at 18 nuclear power units in France may have anomalies similar to those found in the steel of Flamanville EPR vessel. At Fessenheim 2 this includes the steam generator's lower shells. Steam generators are heat exchangers between the water circulating in the primary circuit - at a temperature of about 350°C and a pressure of 155 bar - and the water in the secondary circuit that supplies steam to the turbines. There are three steam generators in 900 MWe pressurized water reactors, while the larger ones feature four.  

Outages impact production target
EDF yesterday revised its nuclear electricity generation target for 2016 to reflect expected extended outages at some of its plants.

The utility said output last month totalled 28.6 TWh, down 2.1 TWh compared with June 2015. Total output over the first half of 2016 was 205.2 TWh, 5.2 TWh less than in the first half of 2015.

EDF said it needs to demonstrate in the second half this year that "some components, mainly steam generators ... can operate in a fully safe mode". It added, "Taking into account ASN's examination schedule, extensions of part of the outages are expected over the second half of 2016".

As a result, EDF has revised its 2016 nuclear output target down from 408-412 TWh to 395-400 TWh.

An analysis in May of the internal production record for the component "established a divergence from the nuclear pressure equipment manufacturing standards", Areva said. They were forged at Areva's Le Creusot facility in 2008 and the ASN certified the component's conformity to safety standards in 2012.

EDF took Fessenheim 2 offline on 13 June for a scheduled maintenance outage and two days later sent an initial analysis of the detected anomalies to ASN which announced yesterday that it has suspended the test certificate for one of the Fessenheim 2 steam generators as its forging "had not been conducted in accordance with the technical dossier" submitted to it by Areva. These test certificates - issued following multiple inspections and hydraulic testing - are required for commissioning, ASN noted. The regulator added that, had it been aware of this non-compliance, it would not have originally issued the certificate.

ASN has requested Areva submit a file detailing the approach it intends to take in order to demonstrate the steam generator meets regulatory standards.