Re: RE: Drill Scenario

[George Hofferber <ghofferb@scientech.com>]

Ernie

How close were the workers to the refueling transfer canal????
How long was the fuel element in the canal??????

The calculations that were given as a rough estimate are relative to a fuel
element that has been  out of an active core for >30 days.    I assume
that, in the case you cited,  if they were moving a fuel element through
the fuel transfer canal to the storage area, that it just recently was
removed from an active core.   One week of decay for a fuel element just
removed from the core leaves it at many times the dose rate of a fuel
element that has been out of the core for 30 days.    

I do no see anything wrong with the validity of the calculations.

George Hofferber 
ghofferber@scientech.com


At 03:26 PM 1/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>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
>
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