Re[3]: Drill Scenario

[Steven.Rima@DOEGJPO.COM (Steven Rima)]

     The two techs involved in this incident, which did happen, were NOT 
     killed!!! Apparently, this incident has "grown" over the years. Two 
     techs were next to the transfer tube during a transfer (why they were 
     there isn't important in this discussion; suffice it to say it was a 
     big "oops"). The two techs received doses of about 27 rem and 17 rem. 
     This is well documented. I haven't seen or heard of any followup 
     studies of these people, (nor would I advocate any) but they 
     definitely were not killed!
     
     I used to use this as an example of what not to do during HP Tech 
     training classes, and I had the NRC's information of what happened. I 
     probably don't still have the information, but a search of the NRC's 
     information would probably yield it.  The actual incident ocurred in 
     the early or mid 70's.
     
     Steven D. Rima, CHP
     Manager, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene
     MACTEC-ERS, LLC
     steven.rima@doegjpo.com


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Subject: Re:  RE:  Drill Scenario
Author:  Egoitein <Egoitein@aol.com> at Internet
Date:    1/12/98 3:27 PM


Two workers were killed during a refueling outage at the Trojan nuclear plant 
many years ago.   They were inside the containment near the fuel transfer tube 
where spent fuel is moved from the refueling cavity to the spent fuel pool.  I 
wonder about the validity of your calculations.   Ernie