On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Dave Howe wrote:
Not sure about Georgia - must be a fairly common problem though as I found a
case at Browns Ferry Alabama (1975) where it all went tits up - no radiation
That's it. I guess everything south of the mason-dixon line is the same
to me :-) Ooops.
danger on
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, David Howe wrote:
It isn't that wildly inaccurate - losing both control rooms would be
(and has been on at least one occasion) an absolute nightmare. on that
occasion, technicians had to get a five-year batch of radiation in ten
minutes by going in, operating *one* valve
A small three-paragraph story recently raised extreme concerns. This AP
newswire from Washington told how engineering models appeared to confirm
the nuclear industry's claim that a reactor containment vessel could
withstand a direct hit from a jet airplane. This may be a convenient
supposition
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote:
The containment vessel may survive a jet impact but the control room and/or
temporary pools of spent fuel lying outside the containment vessel might
not survive. A nuclear core without monitored control because everything
outside the containment vessel is
