I stand corrected then. By the term IFB, can I assume Canadian? Really? You guys just let anyone in with the spent fuel? Do you take pizza delivery in containment then?;-)
I can assume that you have not been in a commercial plant. The spent fuel pool is a locked room inside the vital area and is key card access controlled. The fuel is not being kept there because it is too radioactive. It is being stored there until decay heat becomes manageable. The area is typically monitored by area radiation monitors (ARM) and you will typically have a self reading dosimeter (MG,SAIC, or similar ) as well as a TLD (thermo-luminescent dosimeter) for record purposes. You may or may not use a frisker when you leave the immediate area depending on what work is being performed at the time. You will do a full body frisk when you leave the RCA (radiation controlled area). These terms and procedures are US ones but the rest of the world has basically the same setup that I describe assuming that we are talking about a PWR type reactor.
Your "Buying a $2000 safe for a couple thousand dollars worth" comment got my attention. One rifle with scope in my collection adds up to that value. While not every rifle is worth that money, they are more expensive than you think. Ammunition is $300-$400 a case which is the cheapest way to purchase it. I have trained my kids about gun safety and will happily let them handle them when asked. They will ask. We will go through the safety check drill and we will still treat them like they are loaded. This plan is to reduce the "mystery" associated with them. My kids don't pay any attention to my weapons now. Gun safety the open source way;-).
No, not a god. A sysadmin for a small quasi government facility that has rules about responsible spending. Equivalent pricing for Intel based servers was 3X as much. Both platforms would do the job function so it really came down to price. BTW don't you competitively bid out things? Oh, and why post anonymously?
Tell that to my two servers with two 8 core Magny Cours 6128s per machine. Linux+KVM+fast RAID on these machines equals lots of responsive virtual machines at a price point way below what Intel could deliver. Is virtualisation a niche market? Really?
It is a bit hard to tell from the photo in the article but if I am not mistaken, they are using the Apollo video system. It is a dvr so therefore we are talking about a hard drive. Likely the driver is just hitting the event button to mark the time of the offense. Later back at the depo the video will be automatically downloaded to a central server (by default grabs 1 minute each side of the event button).
TLD not film. You will only see a multi badge pack in extremely high radiation fields (say in excess of 20R) where there is a point source to deal with.
A couple of things. 1 There are usually two dosimeters issued in the RCA. An electronic self reading dosimeter which is calibrated but not used for anything besides a rough total and a way to let the worker know "what they picked up" and a TLD(thermolumenescant dosimeter) which is used for the official record. The electronic dosimeter is read when you exit the RCA and the tld is read every few months. That exposure becomes part of the worker's permanent record (form IV) . The NRC has rules about exposure per year. There hasn't been a lifetime exposure limit since 1992. The story while being mostly about Japan's current crisis does describe a small group of people in this country. We call them nuclear migrant workers, high rad drifters etc. You will hear jokes like "hide and seek for a grand a week" bandied about the break room during an outage. In the early nineties the people doing the work were highly trained in radiological procedure. I lived and worked this way for many years. It is an interesting sub culture to say the least.
Two minor quibbles but overall I agree with you. One, the Nikon 35 AFS is a 1.8 not a 2. Two, there is much to be said for being able to zoom to the desired framing vs sneaker zoom. I wholeheartedly agree about Petersons' book. It has been updated to cover DSLRs btw.
I can take my D1H (circa 2004) and hold the shutter down and take 6 frames a second for 40 frames. I can do the same with my D300 (circa 2007) and get 6 frames a second for 100 frames (8 per second if I am using the vertical grip). I use both of these cameras in low light conditions that would show the weakness of a point and shoot. Namely a point and shoot with its smaller sensor ends up with a much higher noise level than any of my dslrs. All the OP needs is a camera that will outperform his cellphone camera. A used DSLR would only run about $300 and be much more expandable in my opinion. I shoot Nikon but respect any other persons camera. It is not so much the equipment as it is the photographer that takes a good picture.
You might want to look at the Quantaray Pro line before you purchase. I use an U-100 to carry my Nikon D300 with 80-200 f2.8 plus lenses and flash. I don't usually carry a laptop when I shoot but the pack has a compartment large enough for your laptop. It was less expensive than the other contendors here. Food for thought.
I have been playing around with arduinos for awhile now. Last year Sparkfun started carrying a.net opensource hardware called the fez. It was a garrage company building boards and pointing folks to VIsual Studio with a couple of add on libraries (written by the proprietor) . The article seems to be trying to say that it was a Microsoft project from the start. I don't think so. That is not the way I recall it at all. Anyone else remember this board before Microsoft "rewrote" the history?
I have three words for you "positive temperature co-efficient". Someone care to define why this is not desirable in a nuclear reactor? c'mon anyone? I will give you a hint, it involves reactivity and temperature. OK TIMES UP. The answer is : Think back to Chernoblyl. It used a liquid sodium moderator. When the termperature goes up the reactivity goes up. This makes things a little difficult to stop a runaway reaction. PWR's and BWR's have a negative co-efficient meaning that if you overheat the water, it has a tendency to slow the reaction.
So tell me, how many people have died due to radiological conditions there? Give it a break. The plant survived an above design basis accident (at least what they could imagine in the 60's and 70's). IT IS A MESS from my perspective, but at the end of the day, not nearly the boogie man the media has led us to believe.
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I stand corrected then. By the term IFB, can I assume Canadian? Really? You guys just let anyone in with the spent fuel? Do you take pizza delivery in containment then? ;-)
I can assume that you have not been in a commercial plant. The spent fuel pool is a locked room inside the vital area and is key card access controlled. The fuel is not being kept there because it is too radioactive. It is being stored there until decay heat becomes manageable. The area is typically monitored by area radiation monitors (ARM) and you will typically have a self reading dosimeter (MG,SAIC, or similar ) as well as a TLD (thermo-luminescent dosimeter) for record purposes. You may or may not use a frisker when you leave the immediate area depending on what work is being performed at the time. You will do a full body frisk when you leave the RCA (radiation controlled area). These terms and procedures are US ones but the rest of the world has basically the same setup that I describe assuming that we are talking about a PWR type reactor.
Your "Buying a $2000 safe for a couple thousand dollars worth" comment got my attention. One rifle with scope in my collection adds up to that value. While not every rifle is worth that money, they are more expensive than you think. Ammunition is $300-$400 a case which is the cheapest way to purchase it. I have trained my kids about gun safety and will happily let them handle them when asked. They will ask. We will go through the safety check drill and we will still treat them like they are loaded. This plan is to reduce the "mystery" associated with them. My kids don't pay any attention to my weapons now. Gun safety the open source way ;-).
No, not a god. A sysadmin for a small quasi government facility that has rules about responsible spending. Equivalent pricing for Intel based servers was 3X as much. Both platforms would do the job function so it really came down to price. BTW don't you competitively bid out things? Oh, and why post anonymously?
Tell that to my two servers with two 8 core Magny Cours 6128s per machine. Linux+KVM+fast RAID on these machines equals lots of responsive virtual machines at a price point way below what Intel could deliver. Is virtualisation a niche market? Really?
It is a bit hard to tell from the photo in the article but if I am not mistaken, they are using the Apollo video system. It is a dvr so therefore we are talking about a hard drive. Likely the driver is just hitting the event button to mark the time of the offense. Later back at the depo the video will be automatically downloaded to a central server (by default grabs 1 minute each side of the event button).
TLD not film. You will only see a multi badge pack in extremely high radiation fields (say in excess of 20R) where there is a point source to deal with.
A couple of things. 1 There are usually two dosimeters issued in the RCA. An electronic self reading dosimeter which is calibrated but not used for anything besides a rough total and a way to let the worker know "what they picked up" and a TLD(thermolumenescant dosimeter) which is used for the official record. The electronic dosimeter is read when you exit the RCA and the tld is read every few months. That exposure becomes part of the worker's permanent record (form IV) . The NRC has rules about exposure per year. There hasn't been a lifetime exposure limit since 1992. The story while being mostly about Japan's current crisis does describe a small group of people in this country. We call them nuclear migrant workers, high rad drifters etc. You will hear jokes like "hide and seek for a grand a week" bandied about the break room during an outage. In the early nineties the people doing the work were highly trained in radiological procedure. I lived and worked this way for many years. It is an interesting sub culture to say the least.
Put the gun down and call the suicide hotline.
Two minor quibbles but overall I agree with you. One, the Nikon 35 AFS is a 1.8 not a 2. Two, there is much to be said for being able to zoom to the desired framing vs sneaker zoom. I wholeheartedly agree about Petersons' book. It has been updated to cover DSLRs btw.
I can take my D1H (circa 2004) and hold the shutter down and take 6 frames a second for 40 frames. I can do the same with my D300 (circa 2007) and get 6 frames a second for 100 frames (8 per second if I am using the vertical grip). I use both of these cameras in low light conditions that would show the weakness of a point and shoot. Namely a point and shoot with its smaller sensor ends up with a much higher noise level than any of my dslrs. All the OP needs is a camera that will outperform his cellphone camera. A used DSLR would only run about $300 and be much more expandable in my opinion. I shoot Nikon but respect any other persons camera. It is not so much the equipment as it is the photographer that takes a good picture.
Not to mention balanced input power and line conditioners where appropriate. Audiophiles can go to extremes to get that last 2%.
You might want to look at the Quantaray Pro line before you purchase. I use an U-100 to carry my Nikon D300 with 80-200 f2.8 plus lenses and flash. I don't usually carry a laptop when I shoot but the pack has a compartment large enough for your laptop. It was less expensive than the other contendors here. Food for thought.
Try again, CIFS or SMB was an invention of an IBM employee back in the bad old dos days. Microsoft has used and heavily modified what we now know.
Corrections duly noted. Thanks for the info.
Thanks!
You probably are pimply faced 18 year old without a life. Either way, you are beneath my contempt. Be gone and let the adults talk.
That begs the question, which one are you sleeping with tonight?
I have been playing around with arduinos for awhile now. Last year Sparkfun started carrying a .net opensource hardware called the fez. It was a garrage company building boards and pointing folks to VIsual Studio with a couple of add on libraries (written by the proprietor) . The article seems to be trying to say that it was a Microsoft project from the start. I don't think so. That is not the way I recall it at all. Anyone else remember this board before Microsoft "rewrote" the history?
Go tell mummy and daddy that is time for you to go to bed. You are getting cranky.
Interesting notion. Could you provide a link to any articles about either prototype or production units?
I have three words for you "positive temperature co-efficient". Someone care to define why this is not desirable in a nuclear reactor? c'mon anyone? I will give you a hint, it involves reactivity and temperature. OK TIMES UP. The answer is : Think back to Chernoblyl. It used a liquid sodium moderator. When the termperature goes up the reactivity goes up. This makes things a little difficult to stop a runaway reaction. PWR's and BWR's have a negative co-efficient meaning that if you overheat the water, it has a tendency to slow the reaction.
Unless that is an acronym for can't understand normal thinking, I suggest you not use it. It only makes you appear stupid.
Sir! You owe me a keyboard. And while you are at it, get a mop and clean up that sarcasm. Someone might slip on it. ;0
So tell me, how many people have died due to radiological conditions there? Give it a break. The plant survived an above design basis accident (at least what they could imagine in the 60's and 70's). IT IS A MESS from my perspective, but at the end of the day, not nearly the boogie man the media has led us to believe.