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Re[2]: Chernobyl plant repairs suspended
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- From: Kim D Merritt <kdmerri@SANDIA.GOV>
- Date: 28 Jul 1997 11:30:00 -0600
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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?