Re: drill scenario ???

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 10:38 AM 1/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>1. To obtain the goals for the various type drill (ingestion pathway, 
>external exposure, etc.) the scenario normally required > core 
>capacity to result in the ridiculous dose numbers.
>
>2. Drills, as Steve stated, are condensed to complete in one, or two 
>days (if ingestion pathway is being tested). Reality is, emergency 
>conditions do not occur so rapidly. Conditions change, but at a 
>slower rate. Remember TMI!
>

It has become standard practice in power plant drills to "compress time" by
making the scenario contain a series of failures and malfunctions in a
horrendously unrealistic timeframe so that the drill objectives can be met
in one working day. That's just part of the realities of conducting these
drills. However, accomplishing that by using impossibilities like a rod
breach instantly killing people up to miles away just helps an uneducated
public believe that such a thing is possible!

And who's fault is it this time? Isn't this as deliberately misleading as
the Montel Williams junk? The people designing the drill knew that the
utility's public info office would be issuing statements about the sequence
of events in the scenario, so they guaranteed that thius info would reach
the public.

We don't need this.