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Re: radiation exposure at st lucie
on 10/13/02 11:06 AM, Norman Cohen at ncohen12@comcast.net wrote:
> Yo Rasafers.
> This was just an article I came across. Clearly the article lacks details. But
> I'm sure that someone on this list has additional information, is perhaps an
> employee at St. Lucie.
>
> My guess is that "Federal officials" would NOT be investigating if this were
> just a trivial dose exposure.
>
> Norm
To the contrary, "Federal officials" (and IAEA, etc.) have virtually nothing
else to do, and take these opportunities to push their "radiation risk"
fiction. NRC "investigation" will attack or pass on St. Lucie on "management
failures" (depending on St. Lucie mgmt subservience?), for doses that are
trivial compared to background/medical doses (that demonstrate no "risk").
(If there were actual "risks" at low doses, nuclear medicine and
radiologists would be mass-murderers.)
Chasing moonbeams and harassing licensees is their "mission," keeps their
funds coming. "Unnecessary" medical doses are much greater, but aren't
pursued. (Not misadministrations. :-)
Regards, Jim
> "Richard L. Hess" wrote:
>
>> 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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