Re: Chernobyl plant repairs suspended

[sbrightwell@shepmill.com (Shane Brightwell)]

At 09:41 AM 7/26/97 -0700, Sandy's news list had the following:
>Friday July 25 9:27 PM EDT 
>
>Chernobyl plant repairs suspended
>
>KIEV, July 25 (UPI) _ Repairs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant may
>take longer than anticipated because of a shortage of spare parts and
>equipment. 
>
>The Itar-Tass news agency reports that repairs at the plant, the site
>of a catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident, have been suspended until
>October 1. 
>
>Specialists trying to replace 70 fuel channels in the reactor of the
>plant's third power unit have received only a quarter of the needed
>parts and equipment. In effecting the repairs, workers are expected to
>be exposed to an irradiation does of 400 REM, an amount considered
>within safety limits. 
>
>etc., etc.

...400 REM... not far from our LD50/30, is it?  Are their safety limits
based on odds that the worker will live ling enough to finish the job?