Federal Review At Indian Point Finds Over 200 Degraded Bolts

BUCHANAN, N.Y. — A recent review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission uncovered a large number of deteriorating bolts at the Indian Point nuclear plant in Buchanan, according to lohud.com.

Issues with over 200 bolts were found during a federal inspection at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
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Jim Barg

05/02/2016 11:30 a.m.

Over 200 bolts were considered degraded, which is a sign that they've begun to crack, in the plant's Unit 2 reactor, reported lohud.com.

That comes to about 11 percent of the bolts used in the reactor going back decades, reported lohud.com.

The reactor was being inspected as part of preparations to get it back online by the end of June, and repair work has begun on the bolts, the lohud.com report noted.

Read the lohud.com article here.

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