Complex Repairs To Push Restarts Of Brunsbuettel, Kruemmel Into 2009

摘要

Two German BWRs, Kruemmel and Brunsbuettel, which were idled indefinitely by onsite electrical fires in 2007, will not return to service until sometime in 2009 at the earliest, reactor safety experts said.rnDelays in restart are chiefly due to difficulties encountered in addressing stress corrosion cracking, or SCC, they said. The SCC was detected last year in primary circuit equipment that cannotrnbe replaced.