I did some searching. It seems DW messed up the dates of the two incidents, the automatic shutdown system failure was this year. Even so, I couldn't track down any details on the control rod issue. I only found that there was a check on the control rods in three nuclear plants, including Ringhals, from October 2008, when the first one with cracks was discovered in Oskarshamn. But articles I found mentioned further faulty rod findings only in the other two, Forsmark and Oskarshamn.

So, if the admonishing of Ringhals has something to do with this, they must have been worse in something compared to the other two plants.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}