The plant is shutdown. It’s not unusual to get leaks in the tubes over time. During outages the tubes with leaks are plugged. That means the steam from the reactor has no access to the plugged tubes.
“The plant is shutdown. It’s not unusual to get leaks in the tubes over time. During outages the tubes with leaks are plugged. That means the steam from the reactor has no access to the plugged tubes.”
That was simple. Too bad they haven’t stated why the plumbing failed so early after being installed. They should have plugged a percentage of the tubes to begin with just to play it safe.