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Reactor Pressure Boundary Integrity Issues for Pressurized Water Reactors
Overview
RPV Upper Head Issues
RPV Bottom Head Issues
Pressurizer Issues
Reactor Coolant System Weld Issues

RPV Upper Head Issues

As a result of recent discoveries of reactor vessel head degradation in Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station's reactor pressure vessel (RPV) head, the NRC is investigating the structural integrity of reactor vessel heads at 69 pressurized water reactors (PWRs).

 

 



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