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As UK-based independent nuclear engineering consultant and former Brunel university academic, John Large puts it: ??What [the AP article] has indicated is that the inspection regime is failing to keep abreast of the degradation that is going on. The regime is determined by the state and condition of a plant, but in some cases, components start to degrade at a rate that wasn??t expected, so problems are being picked up too late to guarantee absolute safety.??