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Reactor leak found in South Texa
Boric acid leakage not as severe as 2002 Ohio bread
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HOUSTON — The unusual
leak discovered beneath a reactor
at the South Texas Project nuclear
plant, while a cause for concern, is
nothing on the scale of a similar
problem being treated at an Ohio
reactor, the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission said Monday.
“There’s a huge difference
in perspective here” between
the South Texas leak, which
caused a boric acid accumula
tion smaller than an aspirin
tablet’s worth of boric acid
residue from cooling water, and
an accumulation discovered last
summer at the Davis-Besse
nuclear plant west of Cleveland.
“The Davis-Besse problem
was with boric acid leakage on
top of the reactor head,” said
Victor Dricks, spokesman for
the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission in Arlington,
Texas. “It was a massive
amount of boric acid crystal.”
Dricks said employees used
shovels and crowbars to
remove the residue.
“It was that bad, and
because it sat on top of the reac
tor vessel it had eaten a foot-
ball-sized hole in top of the
reactor head,” Dricks said.
The seepage discovered April
12 at the South Texas Project near
Wadsworth, about 70 miles south
west of Houston, is different
because it occurred on the outside
of two instrument guide tubes
where they enter the bottom of
one of two reactors there.
Test results indicate the
residue came from reactor coolant
fluid, plant officials said, which
would be unique for the 69 U.S.
nuclear plants like South Texas
and Davis-Besse that used pres
surized water reactors.
“We just haven’t seen this
before. Bottom temperatures
are (about 40 degrees) cooler
than they are at the top,” Dricks
said, adding that stress corro
sion cracking — if that were the
cause — typically occurs at
higher temperatures.
Dricks added that inspectors
found the problem at South Texas
while following an inspection
order related to the Davis-Besse
problem during a routine shut-
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South Texas Project
nuclear facility
Test results on residue founc
inside a reactor containmenl
building at the South Texas
Project nuclear facility indicate
it came from reactor coolantk
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down of the Unit 1 reactor, which
went online in August 1988.
Plant manager Ed Halpin said
the leak was not fast-growing and
the guide tubes in question are not
integral to the reactor’s operation.
The facility and the agency,
which has onsite inspectors at
all 103 nuclear plants operating
in the United States, had a tele
phone conference call last week
in which South Texas officials
laid out their analysis.
“We were impressed with
the response they’ve taken with
the problem,” Dricks said.
“They committed to J
closely with us.”
South Texas must confers
the commission before embaii
on any repair plan, and thep)
has pledged not to restart is
everything appears fixed,
The plant's other unit con
ues to operate at full power!
plant’s two reactors combi#
produce more than 2j
megawatts of electricity.
The plant supplies powa
customers from Houston
Austin and San Antonio
Corpus Christi.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
White House cybersecurity
adviser Schmidt resigns
WASHINGTON (AP) - White House
cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt
announced his resignation Monday, the
second official to leave the security post
in three months.
Schmidt was the former chief of securi
ty at Microsoft Corp. before taking the
post in February. He succeeded Richard
Clarke, who had spent 11 years in the
White House across three administra
tions, and was the president's countert
error coordinator at the time of the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks.
The White House confirmed Monday
that Schmidt would leave at the end of
the month to pursue other pending pri
vate sector opportunities.
When Clarke announced his resignation,
he also warned of future attacks on the
Internet. "As long as we have vulnerabili
ties in cyberspace, and as long as America
has enemies, we are at risk of the two
coming together to severely damage our
great country," he wrote.
Tea may provide immune
system benefits, study finds
(AP) — A new study finds that tea boosts
the body's defenses against infection and
contains a substance that might be turned
into a drug to protect against disease,
researchers say. Coffee does not havetlf
same effect, they say.
A component in tea was found in laboia-
tory experiments to prime the immune^
tern to attack invading bacteria, viruses and
fungi, according to a study in tlie
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences released Monday.
A second experiment, using human volun
teers, showed that immune system I
cells from tea drinkers responded five times
faster to germs than did the blood cells of
coffee drinkers.
Dr. Jack F. Bukowski, a researcher a!
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
and Harvard Medical School, said tlie
results of their tests gave clear proof tha!
five cups of tea a day sharpened tlif
body's disease defenses.
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