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**TineSeign** · 12-03-2011, 05:15 PM

yearly dose in 1 hour - thats not a small leak

Small leak is techincal jargin, there are several "levels" of leaks, spill,small leak, fast leak, and large leak, something like that. Leak indicates it is a constant flow and has not been stopped, spill would be a certain amount has been released. So when they say small,large etc, its not defining the level of radioactivity nor the dose one would recieve from proximity. A few drops of reactor coolant could yeild enough of a dose to cause serious harm, or hundreds of gallons could be almost harmless.

If they are indeed picking up readings that high on the average "around" the plant, then I would have to assume that reactor coolant, or RAM(Radioactive material) has somehow escaped containment. Untill I hear more information, In my opinion, this has gone from a natural disaster compounding into an incident at the plant, to a release of radioactive material from some source. This is bad. They now have to begin containment of the source, decontamination, determining the extent of the release, is it water borne? is it radiation from static sources? is it airborne? and they also have to continue working on getting the 4 shutdown cores to more stable "shutdown temperatures/pressures." this containment breach will make working out there much much harder.

12-03-2011, 05:15 PM	#88
TineSeign Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	yearly dose in 1 hour - thats not a small leak Small leak is techincal jargin, there are several "levels" of leaks, spill,small leak, fast leak, and large leak, something like that. Leak indicates it is a constant flow and has not been stopped, spill would be a certain amount has been released. So when they say small,large etc, its not defining the level of radioactivity nor the dose one would recieve from proximity. A few drops of reactor coolant could yeild enough of a dose to cause serious harm, or hundreds of gallons could be almost harmless. If they are indeed picking up readings that high on the average "around" the plant, then I would have to assume that reactor coolant, or RAM(Radioactive material) has somehow escaped containment. Untill I hear more information, In my opinion, this has gone from a natural disaster compounding into an incident at the plant, to a release of radioactive material from some source. This is bad. They now have to begin containment of the source, decontamination, determining the extent of the release, is it water borne? is it radiation from static sources? is it airborne? and they also have to continue working on getting the 4 shutdown cores to more stable "shutdown temperatures/pressures." this containment breach will make working out there much much harder.
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