[ RadSafe ] Kakrapar nuclear power plant confirms radiation leak

Tue Aug 2 10:01:29 CDT 2011

Here is the official press release about the incident. Please follow the link.
http://www.npcil.nic.in/pdf/news_01aug2011.pdf
I do not think they are doing a good job in saying that a normal painting job is nothing but an emergency situation. Hence applying the emergency dose limit is not correct. 
I do not think they have a built in engineering control to prevent this type of incident. They were supposed to have administrative control like completing a check list before initiating the important operation like this. It looks like the operators did not complete the check list. 
It is not clear what necessary improvements they carried out in the system to prevent future incidents like this as they claim in the last paragraph. May be Dr.Parthasaraty from India have more informations.
Boby  

--- On Tue, 8/2/11, Perle, Sandy <sperle at mirion.com> wrote:

From: Perle, Sandy <sperle at mirion.com>
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Kakrapar nuclear power plant confirms radiation leak
To: "The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List" <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 9:06 AM

I met Dave, not Richard!  Sorry about that!

Regards,

Sandy

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On 8/2/11 6:02 AM, "Perle, Sandy" <sperle at mirion.com> wrote:

>Richard and Jim,
>
>Agree. This site and their public information office need to really
>perform an in-depth review of their operations, their communication
>protocols and then get their facts straight. Makes Fukushima look fairly
>reasonable!  :)
>
>Regards,
>
>Sandy
>
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>Sander C. Perle
>President
>Mirion Technologies
>Dosimetry Services Division
>2652 McGaw Avenue
>Irvine, CA 92614
>
>+1 (949) 296-2306 (Office)
>+1 (949) 296-1130 (Fax)
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>Mirion Technologies: http://www.mirion.com/
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>On 8/2/11 3:35 AM, "James Barnes" <james.g.barnes at att.net> wrote:
>
>>Ummmm.  Don't know about glowing TLDs, but I'd be pretty concerned if I
>>had
>>workers in the spent fuel transfer duct area and operations decided to
>>move fuel
>>without letting me know.  Sounds like that plant has some serious issues
>>regarding situation awareness, and possibly some issues where operations
>>doesn't
>>heed direction from HP.
>>
>>Jim Barnes
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>>From: Richardson David (RDE) Colchester Hospital University NHS
>>Foundation Tr
>><David.Richardson at colchesterhospital.nhs.uk>
>>To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
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>>Sent: Tue, August 2, 2011 1:28:58 AM
>>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Kakrapar nuclear power plant confirms radiation
>>leak
>>
>>Sandy,
>>
>>
>>
>>If I didn't know your background, I would have thought the article to be
>>a
>>spoof.
>>
>>
>>
>>1.    90 million rays (what kind of measurement unit is that, apparently
>>1
>>million rays = 1mSv)
>>
>>2.    Glowing TLDs - not unless you get them hot (temperature)!!!
>>
>>3.    Nuclear radiation from a CT scanner?
>>
>>4.    90mSv harmless?!?!?! - so why are our dose limits much lower than
>>that?
>>
>>
>>
>>As you say, ridiculous
>>
>>
>>
>>Best regards
>>
>>
>>
>>Dave Richardson
>>
>>Radiation Protection
>>
>>Medical Physics
>>
>>COLCHESTER
>>
>>CO3 3NB
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