'Faulty bolts' discovered at Indian Point nuclear power plant
Source: LoHud
Hundreds of “faulty” and “missing” bolts were discovered during a planned outage at Indian Point nuclear power plant and will keep a reactor shut down for several additional weeks.
A scheduled inspection at the Buchanan power plant of more than 2,000 bolts on the face of a removable insert liner in the plant’s Unit 2 reactor “revealed issues” with about 11 percent of the bolts, or 220, Entergy said in a statement on its website Tuesday. The issues found included “missing bolts” and “other degradation requiring replacement of the bolts,” Entergy said.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has repeatedly criticized Indian Point’s safety record and called for the closure of the aging plant, said in a statement that the discovery of “hundreds of faulty bolts” raised “deep concerns.
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Paul Gallay, president of the environmental watchdog group Riverkeeper, said in a statement that Tuesday's findings were the latest in a spate of worrisome incidents that raises more doubt about the reliability of the nuclear facility and its management.
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Read more: http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/indian-point/2016/03/29/indian-point-nuclear-power-plant-faulty-bolts-colsure/82408462/
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at least if the thing blows I can kiss my ass goodbye right away. 
