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Re: radiation exposue at st lucie
At 07:46 PM 10/12/2002 -0400, Norman Cohen wrote:
> > Radiation Exposure at Nuclear Plant
> >
> > ASSOCIATED PRESS
> >
> > HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla.- Federal officials are investigating
> > how 28 nuclear power plant workers were exposed to radiation
> > during a maintenance operation.
That's all very interesting, Norman, but it doesn't tell us WHAT the dose was.
What dose were these workers actually exposed to?
Was it as much as a transcontinental flight?
Was it as much as a dental X-ray?
Are they glowing in the dark?
ALARA is a great goal, but if it wasn't ALARA did it do any harm?
Forwarding popular press articles to a technical list is of limited utility
in my opinion. Press articles with mis- and dis- information, especially
when the most egregious of these are aggregated, are a major cause of some
of the unwarranted fears we have of nuclear technology.
I would hope that while the UNPLUG SALEM campaign has a very obvious stated
goal, accurate reporting of technical details should not be sacrificed to
your goal.
There are some warranted fears of the technology, and Davis-Besse and the
management and regulatory failures are good examples of what can
organizationally go wrong, but this was a step to correct that, as I read
between the lines.
Thanks!
Richard
> >
> > Florida Power & Light, owner of the St. Lucie Nuclear Plant,
> > said plant employees and several outside contractors inhaled
> > radioactive particles Oct. 6 during maintenance work on one
> > of the plant's two units.
> >
> > The radiation was at a "very low" level, and none of the
> > workers reported feeling sick, the company said.
> >
> > FPL officials expected some radiation to be released during
> > the operation, and two workers who were pressure-cleaning
> > beneath the top part of the reactor in the 230-foot-tall
> > building were wearing protective suits. However, the 28
> > workers 62 feet above them were not wearing any protection.
> >
> > "The dose is expected to be kept as low as reasonably
> > achievable, and in this incident we're not sure that's what
> > occurred," said Len Wert, an Atlanta-based branch chief for
> > the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which supervises
> > inspectors at Florida's nuclear plants.
> >
> > In August, the NRC ordered 69 of the nation's 103 nuclear
> > reactor facilities to test certain reactor heads after
> > inspections revealed corrosion and cracks at two plants in
> > South Carolina and Ohio. This was the first such cleaning at
> > the St. Lucie plant.
> >
> > Federal inspectors are investigating whether FPL followed
> > government guidelines, said NRC spokesman Roger Hannah.
> >
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