The Nation - News from July 29, 1985
More than a year before the June 9 failure of feedwater pumps at an Ohio nuclear plant, government regulators identified the system as the biggest potential source of a “core damage” accident, according to documents just released. In a letter to the House Energy conservation and power subcommittee, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it “is not aware of any other” plant safety system that is as vulnerable to failure as the feedwater system at the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo.
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