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Dave McCrae
July 30, 2016 at 12:20 amWe encountered this problem in 1976 in Perry Nuclear Plant Emergency Cooling Water Intake Structures. The crack initiation was traced to weld joint design, and lamellar tearing within the plate. 🙂