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Degraded concrete at Seabrook plant cited in NRC study

NRC calls facility safe, but notes concerns about monitoring

By Brenda J. Buote

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 01, 2012

A new inspection report on Seabrook Station, released last week by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, found that a concrete safety structure compromised by years of groundwater infiltration is ”operable but degraded” and chided the plant operator for failing to fully evaluate certain areas related to the degradation.

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