Wallace Scherer, WallyTS@compuserve.com,9/26/97: >the shipfitters used a type of x-ray >machine to examine weld joints in the steel plates to see if there were any >invisible cracks. I think pipefitters do the same when installing pipelines >for petroleum. They do this on a regular basis at the nuclear power plant 30 miles down river from me (Vt Yankee, Vernon). When the Seabrook (NH) nuke was being built, some inspectors were fired when discovered to having falsified records of defective welds thus discoevered. Bill Ballard, RPT New Hampshire Chapter, PTG "There are fifty ways to screw up on this job. If you can think of twenty of them, you're a genius......and you aint no genius" Mickey Rourke to William Hurt, in "Body Heat", discussing arson.
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