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

[Sandy Perle]

On 7 Sep 2005 at 19:52, glandry at canberra.com wrote:

> 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. 

It's the latter. All about the $$$. On the other hand, to meet INPO 
goals there has to be consideration of dose, but not necessarily 
based on risk. The key to reduce dose is not to perform significant 
maintenance by maintaining a well-operated plant and don't keep re-
building the plant after every design change comes along, as was the 
case in the 70s and 80s. The result is the lowest plant doses ever, 
as recently documented.

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