[ RadSafe ] Re: Fw: Someone just responded to your comment

[glandry at canberra.com]

Were these outage shortening decisions based on personnel dose risk, or 
getting the plant back on line and generating revenue as soon as possible. 
 Its been a while since I've worked at a commercial reactor, but I think 
the answer is the latter.

Best regards,
GL
Columbia, SC




"Sandy Perle" <sandyfl at earthlink.net>
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09/07/2005 07:22 PM
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        To:     John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
        cc:     radsafe at radlab.nl
        Subject:        RE: [ RadSafe ] Re: Fw: Someone just responded to your comment


On 7 Sep 2005 at 13:56, John Jacobus wrote:

> I have yet to hear that work is not being done because of funds. 

As plants moved to longer time between outages, maintenance work was 
obviously put off. When shortest outage records became the goal, 
there was work not performed. I think we have already about recent 
incidents that support the notion that some work is not getting done, 
and when work is not performed, one effect is for lower man-rem. So, 
what caused the reduction is interpretive .. was it better ALARA 
practices, or simply letting the work wait until some future date?

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