Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Dave Howe wrote: Not sure about Georgia - must be a fairly common problem though as I found a case at Browns Ferry Alabama (1975) where it all went tits up - no radiation That's it. I guess everything south of the mason-dixon line is the same to me :-) Ooops. danger on that one, but they had to manually scram as all the automated systems were lost - including the emergency cooling system that they had to jury-rig. Can't find a record of the one I remember on the web anyplace - I can find an unrelated note that TMI operators had to go adjust valves and take readings in a hot environment, but their exposure badges only showed 1 REM at worst (with a note that this was approximately three weeks maximum allowable intake). Fairly sure it wasn't american though :( My references were on paper, not the web, and I *should* still have them. I will look about and if I can find them, scan them in for you to take a look at :) Sounds good to me :-) No new plants have been ordered in the US since 1972, and I think all were completed by 1993 at the latest. I'd be suprised if there's any nuke stuff on the web other than French. They are way ahead of everyone else! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, David Howe wrote: It isn't that wildly inaccurate - losing both control rooms would be (and has been on at least one occasion) an absolute nightmare. on that occasion, technicians had to get a five-year batch of radiation in ten minutes by going in, operating *one* valve by hand, then getting the hell out before they reached a lethal dose. From *that* one they learnt that having two control rooms doesn't do jack if you run both sets of wire along the same trays - and have flamable insulation on the wires. If you lose control, the reactor scrams. A 5 year dose is 7.5 Rem, about 1/100th the dose of a single chemo treatment. The only case of fire on insulation I know of was a reactor in Georgia (USA) where they were using a candle to find an air leak, and shut down the reactor because both sets of cables went thru one vent. 1) don't use candles to measure air flow and 2) don't lay backups in the same tray. Nobody got any radiation dose from that incident tho. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: The containment vessel may survive a jet impact but the control room and/or temporary pools of spent fuel lying outside the containment vessel might not survive. A nuclear core without monitored control because everything outside the containment vessel is incinerated can cause a modern day China Syndrome or Chernobyl disaster. Bwah haha ha ha heee China syndrome huh? go watch jane in barberella, you'll learn more physics. This is what i get for bypassing the kill file :-) but it is mighty funny! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
