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Design deficiency in the turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump cooling water system.

Bibliographic Details
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 1989.
Series:	Information notice ; no, 89-48.
Subjects:	Feed-water pumps > Design and construction. Feed-water pumps > Cooling.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo151097

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