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Re[2]: Chernobyl plant repairs suspended




     More than likely a person-REM estimate.


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Subject: Re: Chernobyl plant repairs suspended
Author:  sbrightwell@shepmill.com at hubsmtp
Date:    7/28/97 9:28 AM


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?