Hmm . . . actually I left the industry in protest of radiological practices at an US power station. I considered suing for a period of time. To the average joe, it would seem that I had many reasons to bad mouth the industry. I have my problems with how things run but wouldn't compromise my integrity by representing things falsely. No matter who it hurts or helps. You might want to look up that word "integrity".
And I suppose your opinion is based on something other than hear-say? Like maybe a little personal experience? Until then I suggest you avoid putting your foot in your mouth. I worked in the industry for 20 years and while I wouldn't paint them as choir boys, I know that the Corporate bean counters aren't the demons you portray them to be.
That is interesting. Considering that anything that operates in the GM range is not effective at measuring anything. It is good at detecting, yes but quantifying no. To do the work you need something that operates in the semi-proportional range like say an RO-2 dose-rate meter. You also need to take open shield/closed shield readings to help you identify beta/gamma levels. Alpha is an entirely different matter that a GM tube doesn't even see. To do the work properly you would need to take air samples from around the area and run them through a GELI counter or similar. As has been mentioned before, instruments like this need to be calibrated often and take training to handle correctly.
A shareware OS hmm... it has been a few years but what about TSX32. http://www.sandh.com/os.htm ? It was distributed in the shareware channels back in the early nineties. It was crippled until you purchased a license if I recall correctly. I believe that would make it prior art.
Nice thinking but doesn't quite work like that in reality. A nuke maintains a steady output. The distribution system is separate from the generation system. The grid does communicate via a private network. The generation system would feel a loss of grid in the form of a turbine overspeed as the generator unloaded. This in turn would trip the reactor and actuate the MSIV's. Since I am not an operator I may be missing a few details but this is essentially correct. Hope this helps clear a few things up.
Oh come on now! This has been common knowledge to anyone who cared to find out since it happened back in the 80's. Why do you think they shut Browns Ferry down? I have worked in the industry for 18 years and it still amazes me how little the man on the street knows about the "big green monster". For the record, plant control systems are isolated from the real world. The only way to inject an exploit would be to get it into an embedded system that was eventually installed in a power plant. A little too indirect a route for a terrorist if you ask me. Besides the effected systems wouldn't have caused an accident. In a BWR no flow equals no reactor power. In PWR mind you things would have been a little different. I leave that as an exercise to the reader to research further. I also don't wish to discuss anything that might give insight to someone who might actually try it.
Ok, first off I may be totally misinterpreting you (I actually hope I am). Lets cook this argument down to one question. WHO PAYS? You have problem with sharing the cost of treating a medical disorder whethor or not it is self inflicted I think is irrelevent. So change the disease and the circumstance just a little lets see if your position is defendable. My wife has inflammatory breast cancer. This extremely rare disease affects less than 1,000 people a year. 10 years ago it was a death sentance because there was no research. Today, because we all shared the cost of some research my wife is receiving treatment that might prolong her life. Would you like to look me in the eye and tell me that my wifes' treatment is a mistake and you shouldn't be forced to help pay for it? Do you have any disorders other than the borderline diabetes that you allude to? Your family? Think about it a little while before you let your temper get the best of you. BTW I pay many thousands of dollars in medical insurance every year. I also pay more in taxes than most joe sixpacks bring home in a check. I carry my weight and a little more.
Smells like a troll to me but hey I could take a minute to vent. I am 185 pounds at 6 foot tall. I am 41 years old. I am also a type II diabetic. When I was diagnosed I was 45 pounds heavier. I lost the weight over a period of about 6 months. GUESS WHAT??? I AM STILL A TYPE II WITH ACTIVE SYMPTOMS! Weight figures in sure, but is it a cause or just a symptom? Or is it both? I know that even though I have always eaten well(family history of diabetes so I was well educated), been physically active (very demanding job) I still ended up where I am now. Any pointers as to how I can cure this disease without resorting to purging ? eh ?
No offense, but obviously you aren't amongst the group of people affected by the theft. I got a letter from the VA (via the IRS) recently informing me that my info had been stolen. I will presume that it has been compromised until I see something besides some spin doctor proclaiming that "all is well". In my line of work (nuclear) it is ingrained to make conservative decisions.
More likely that he is from the US (like me) and works in the commercial nuclear power field (also like me). The standard in the US (as also pointed out in the article) is the REM - Radiation Equivilant Man. Besides who cares if I say one millisievert or one-hundred millirem? Dose is dose is dose.
What folks probably don't realise is that the fine levied is only part of the potential cost of upsetting the NRC. There is the cost of being off line for an undeternined amount of time while you get yourself straight. (at a cost of about 1 million a day) Then there is the increased inspections that do in fact add to the cost. All in all the "fine" is the token slap. The real pain comes a little more indirectly. IAMARW - I AM A Radiation Worker
There is one thing I have learned over the years. The military tought it to me first, NEVER threaten with a gun! If my weapon cleared leather, I would have already determined that I had need/justification to shoot. I would draw, aim center of mass and pull the trigger. Pointing a weapon that you do not intend on shooting will get you killed. I would not pull a weapon just because someone "asked" me for my wallet. If they had a weapon, THEY and not me have already escalated the level to lethal force. All fifty states allow one to respond to force with an equal force. The reason I would shoot would not be that they were attempting to mug me but, that they had treatened my life with a weapon.
I don't know about that. In my particular field, constant training/re/certification are required by law. I happen to teach a goal oriented course about linux fundamentals. It is required for an operator prior to picking up the mouse. I have about 4 pages worth of certs that cover everything I could possibly be involved in at a power plant. From what I can tell, even if it wasn't required, the training structure would be what it is at my company.Some people do in fact "take the training and run". But, that is just the cost of doing buisiness when you are talking about locked high rad areas and 1 Million bucks a day in costs when the plant is off line.
First, I should be offended by this assertion since, my occupation is the maintenance of nuclear power plants. A check with the NRC site produced nothing about Seabrook and falsification of records. It did bring up a few for other plants (one concerning safety related systems). Good question, on the waste issue. It is one of my pet peeves about the way the U.S. does buisiness.
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Hmm . . . actually I left the industry in protest of radiological practices at an US power station. I considered suing for a period of time. To the average joe, it would seem that I had many reasons to bad mouth the industry. I have my problems with how things run but wouldn't compromise my integrity by representing things falsely. No matter who it hurts or helps. You might want to look up that word "integrity".
And I suppose your opinion is based on something other than hear-say? Like maybe a little personal experience? Until then I suggest you avoid putting your foot in your mouth. I worked in the industry for 20 years and while I wouldn't paint them as choir boys, I know that the Corporate bean counters aren't the demons you portray them to be.
That is interesting. Considering that anything that operates in the GM range is not effective at measuring anything. It is good at detecting, yes but quantifying no. To do the work you need something that operates in the semi-proportional range like say an RO-2 dose-rate meter. You also need to take open shield/closed shield readings to help you identify beta/gamma levels. Alpha is an entirely different matter that a GM tube doesn't even see. To do the work properly you would need to take air samples from around the area and run them through a GELI counter or similar. As has been mentioned before, instruments like this need to be calibrated often and take training to handle correctly.
A shareware OS hmm... it has been a few years but what about TSX32. http://www.sandh.com/os.htm ? It was distributed in the shareware channels back in the early nineties. It was crippled until you purchased a license if I recall correctly. I believe that would make it prior art.
Nice thinking but doesn't quite work like that in reality. A nuke maintains a steady output. The distribution system is separate from the generation system. The grid does communicate via a private network. The generation system would feel a loss of grid in the form of a turbine overspeed as the generator unloaded. This in turn would trip the reactor and actuate the MSIV's. Since I am not an operator I may be missing a few details but this is essentially correct. Hope this helps clear a few things up.
Oh come on now! This has been common knowledge to anyone who cared to find out since it happened back in the 80's. Why do you think they shut Browns Ferry down? I have worked in the industry for 18 years and it still amazes me how little the man on the street knows about the "big green monster". For the record, plant control systems are isolated from the real world. The only way to inject an exploit would be to get it into an embedded system that was eventually installed in a power plant. A little too indirect a route for a terrorist if you ask me. Besides the effected systems wouldn't have caused an accident. In a BWR no flow equals no reactor power. In PWR mind you things would have been a little different. I leave that as an exercise to the reader to research further. I also don't wish to discuss anything that might give insight to someone who might actually try it.
Ok, first off I may be totally misinterpreting you (I actually hope I am). Lets cook this argument down to one question. WHO PAYS? You have problem with sharing the cost of treating a medical disorder whethor or not it is self inflicted I think is irrelevent. So change the disease and the circumstance just a little lets see if your position is defendable. My wife has inflammatory breast cancer. This extremely rare disease affects less than 1,000 people a year. 10 years ago it was a death sentance because there was no research. Today, because we all shared the cost of some research my wife is receiving treatment that might prolong her life. Would you like to look me in the eye and tell me that my wifes' treatment is a mistake and you shouldn't be forced to help pay for it? Do you have any disorders other than the borderline diabetes that you allude to? Your family? Think about it a little while before you let your temper get the best of you. BTW I pay many thousands of dollars in medical insurance every year. I also pay more in taxes than most joe sixpacks bring home in a check. I carry my weight and a little more.
Smells like a troll to me but hey I could take a minute to vent. I am 185 pounds at 6 foot tall. I am 41 years old. I am also a type II diabetic. When I was diagnosed I was 45 pounds heavier. I lost the weight over a period of about 6 months. GUESS WHAT??? I AM STILL A TYPE II WITH ACTIVE SYMPTOMS! Weight figures in sure, but is it a cause or just a symptom? Or is it both? I know that even though I have always eaten well(family history of diabetes so I was well educated), been physically active (very demanding job) I still ended up where I am now. Any pointers as to how I can cure this disease without resorting to purging ? eh ?
No offense, but obviously you aren't amongst the group of people affected by the theft. I got a letter from the VA (via the IRS) recently informing me that my info had been stolen. I will presume that it has been compromised until I see something besides some spin doctor proclaiming that "all is well". In my line of work (nuclear) it is ingrained to make conservative decisions.
More likely that he is from the US (like me) and works in the commercial nuclear power field (also like me). The standard in the US (as also pointed out in the article) is the REM - Radiation Equivilant Man. Besides who cares if I say one millisievert or one-hundred millirem? Dose is dose is dose.
Oh, I don't know about that. It seemed logical to me that Microsoft would come up. Weren't we talking about vapour vs . . . ?
What folks probably don't realise is that the fine levied is only part of the potential cost of upsetting the NRC. There is the cost of being off line for an undeternined amount of time while you get yourself straight. (at a cost of about 1 million a day) Then there is the increased inspections that do in fact add to the cost. All in all the "fine" is the token slap. The real pain comes a little more indirectly.
IAMARW - I AM A Radiation Worker
There is one thing I have learned over the years. The military tought it to me first, NEVER threaten with a gun! If my weapon cleared leather, I would have already determined that I had need/justification to shoot. I would draw, aim center of mass and pull the trigger. Pointing a weapon that you do not intend on shooting will get you killed. I would not pull a weapon just because someone "asked" me for my wallet. If they had a weapon, THEY and not me have already escalated the level to lethal force. All fifty states allow one to respond to force with an equal force. The reason I would shoot would not be that they were attempting to mug me but, that they had treatened my life with a weapon.
I don't know about that. In my particular field, constant training/re/certification are required by law. I happen to teach a goal oriented course about linux fundamentals. It is required for an operator prior to picking up the mouse. I have about 4 pages worth of certs that cover everything I could possibly be involved in at a power plant. From what I can tell, even if it wasn't required, the training structure would be what it is at my company.Some people do in fact "take the training and run". But, that is just the cost of doing buisiness when you are talking about locked high rad areas and 1 Million bucks a day in costs when the plant is off line.
First, I should be offended by this assertion since, my occupation is the maintenance of nuclear power plants. A check with the NRC site produced nothing about Seabrook and falsification of records. It did bring up a few for other plants (one concerning safety related systems). Good question, on the waste issue. It is one of my pet peeves about the way the U.S. does buisiness.