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Re: News report of coolant leak at Indian Point



Maybe the reporter is confused and he meant the

leakage of water was about a tenth of an ounce a day. 

Strange way to report identified leakage since Tech

Specs give leakage rates in gallons per minute not

weight per unit time.  Maybe Indian Point is an odd

ball ;)



Tim Steadham



--- "Strickert, Rick"

<rstrickert@signaturescience.com> wrote:

> Excerpted from the Washington Post web site

> (

>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9640-2002Feb14.html)

> 

> 	Nuclear Power Plant Leaking Coolant 

> 	The Associated Press

> 	Thursday, February 14, 2002; 12:23 PM 

> 

> 	BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- Radioactive coolant is leaking

> from a steam

> generator of 

> 	the Indian Point nuclear plants, but not enough to

> endanger

> anyone or slow 

> 	down the plant, officials said.

> 

> 	Plant owner Entergy Corp. reported that sensors

> detected

> radioactivity - about 

> 	a tenth of an ounce a day - in what is supposed to

> be the clean

> water that is 

> 	converted to steam.

> 

> 	"It's very small. It's being monitored. There's no

> danger,"

> Entergy spokesman 

> 	Larry Gottlieb said Thursday.

> 

> 	Company vice president Fred Dacino noted the

> allowable limit of

> radioactivity 

> 	is 1,000 times as much.

> ------

> 

> That "tenth of an ounce a day" must be some new SI

> unit of

> radioactivity. ;-)

> 

> Rick

> 

> Richard G. Strickert, Ph.D.

> Principal Scientist

> Signature Science LLC 

> 8329 North Mopac Blvd.

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> 

> 

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