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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 2003
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1359-6128
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✦ Synopsis
BASE PLATES CHECKED AFTER BLACKMAIL THREAT
Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has inspected the base plates of feedwater pumps at a number of Japanese nuclear power plants and confirmed that they are safe.
The inspection follows a blackmail threat from a former worker at a subcontractor company of MHI Takasago Machinery Works and MHI Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works. In a letter to MHI, the worker claimed that he had made a number of improper welding formations to the base plates of main feedwater pumps used in the secondary systems of a number of nuclear power stations. He threatened to inform the nuclear plants' operators unless MHI instructed the subcontractor to pay him ¥40 million.
MHI says it has conducted a conclusive inspection of the base plates of eight turbinedriven main feedwater pumps based on descriptions of the faulty work received from the blackmailer and found no sign of improper welding formations.