Gosh, your 40 year old hindsight is just as clear as can be.
It is a testament to the design and construction of these things that they have heave held up as well as they have considering what they have been subjected to, which they were NOT designed to handle.
I think they are damned impressive.
The engineers should be proud.
A very cheap & worthwhile investment considering.
Very easy peasy japanesy to be snide & condecending, but it sure would it be nice if this problem hadn't been added to all the others?
Thanks for contributing a measure of sanity to this thread. Look, I know we all want to bash GE because of the current Obama connection but when the nuclear facilities were built in the early 70's, Jeffrey Immelt was all of 15 year old.