David Lochbaum, UCSIn his blog entitled "Nuclear Autopsies," David Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project at Union of Concerned Scientists, cites radiation impacts on reactor metal as his first example of the value of performing destructive testing on permanently shutdown nuclear power plant structures and components.
Regarding the baffle plate and core barrel materials "harvested" from the defunct Zorita reactor in Spain, he writes :
Metal specimens (...)