How many square km are 814 acres ? Thanks, it's for a translation into French. Samuel Walker, the NRC's official historian, has written in his new book on TMI that "the accident discharged up to 13 million curies of radioactive noble gases to the environment" (231), but "less than 20 curies" of iodine-131 (238). Can we have a source for this figure, please? I've seen a figure of 3 x 10^17 Bq (of Xenon 133) quoted in Radiation and Health: The Biological Effects of Low Level Exposure to Ionizing Radiation Edited by Robin Russell Jones and Richard Southwood, published by John Wiley ISBN 4-9. The figure of 2.5 million curies / 90 PBq on this article page has been queried on the talk page for Windscale. So this is a correct unit for the answer. A Becquerel is an amount of radioactive material that produces one decay per second. Simesa 22:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC) Reply Actually, a curie measures an amount of radioactivity (not radiation). Both the regulations and the costs were out of control. The reasons were that vastly increased federal regulations were stretching out construction times horrendously, at a time of double-digit interest rates. the thing that really killed it was the desicion in the US to not reprocess the spent fule rods.Īctually, plants were being cancelled en masse even before TMI. No new reactors have been made since the 70's for comercial perposes. Is there a good way to rephrase this? -rmhermen Curies measure an amount of radiation - not a volume of gas. Is it true that no new reactors were ordered after TMI - only in process ones completed? Also "2.5 million curies of radioactive gas" is wrong. Killed an industry? The US has the largest nuclear generating industry in the world, over 100 reactors producing over 8% of total US output. See comment below re "one excess fatal cancer." Removed "the accident was not serious." Granted no one died, but any accident that cost a $1 billion to fix and killed an entire industry strikes me as a big oops. − Enterprise Eric 17:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC) Reply It's great to hear about valves and pumps, etc., but a diagram will explain a lot that can't be efficiently explained by text.
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