| 1. | FirstEnergy replaced the damaged reactor vessel head and overhauled the plant's management.
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| 2. | The reactor vessel is housed inside the concrete and steel-lined containment building.
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| 3. | The reactor vessel was removed on November 29, 1961 without incident.
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| 4. | Low pressure stability permits less robust reactor vessels and increases reliability.
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| 5. | In BWRs, the control rods are inserted up from underneath the reactor vessel.
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| 6. | The piping external to the reactor vessel contains a secondary, nonradioactive coolant salt.
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| 7. | All three reactors will get new reactor vessel lids next year, he said.
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| 8. | They said they had never seen so much corrosion in a reactor vessel.
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| 9. | Reactor vessels have traveled long distances by rail and barge in the past.
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| 10. | A second reactor vessel was scheduled to be finished sometime next year, he said.
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