[ RadSafe ] Tritium production in a nuke plant

[JPreisig at aol.com]

Radsafe,
 
     Hey All.  The Brookhaven National  Laboratory  HFBR was killed by poor 
control of the water in the High  Flux Beam Reactor fuel storage pool.  Some
one or multiple persons continued  to pump water into a full
fuel storage pool for a long time.  The resulting tritium plume  happened.  
It was not detected for a while.
As the result many people lost their jobs in a layoff, and the BNL  
contractor went from Associated 
Universities to Brookhaven Associates.  The HFBR was shut down  and we lost 
an older, viable research reactor.
 
    Sure, in the grand dose scheme of things, tritium is  probably not that 
big a deal, unless an internal dose situation happens.   However, tritium 
is very mobile in the groundwater environment.  The law  says to be a good
neighbor and not allow too much tritium to go offsite.  When  
dose/concentration limits are exceeded, the NRC, EPA, DOE etc. intercede.
 
    Have a good week.    Joe Preisig
 
 
         
 
 
In a message dated 4/17/2013 9:34:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
kerrembaev at yahoo.com writes:

Well, I  believe tritium "killed" Brookhaven.
A couple of plants, as I know are in  the "tritium" danger, can not share 
the plants names for certain professional  reasons.
One plant also had to start buying bottled water for some close by  living 
rural residents, four-six years ago? 

If you still  need the calcs, I could look at it?

Emil Murat.

--- On  Wed, 4/17/13, Rahim Ghanooni <rahim.ghanooni at gmail.com>  wrote:


From: Rahim Ghanooni  <rahim.ghanooni at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Tritium  production in a nuke plant
To: "The International Radiation Protection  (Health Physics) Mailing List" 
<radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
Date:  Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 5:57 PM


Jerry :

I agree with you  but I have to answer the higher authority, means  NRC.

Rahim


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Cohen  <jjcohen at prodigy.net> wrote:

> Just curious as to why you  believe tritium production is of any
> importance. From a public health  standpoint, tritium is of little or no
> consequence.
> Jerry  Cohen
>
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>  I am looking for a  equation/method/documentation/**publication to
>>  calculate
>> the Tritium production in a typical nuke  plant.
>>
>> Feel free to contact me  directly.
>>
>> Thnx
>> Rahim
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