Well opposite of how it would usually be used everywhere else. In most installations if the alarm sounds you'd shit your pants. Here if it's not alarming you should still shit your pants
That is incorrect. Your talking about gamma rays from UV light, not ingesting hot particles of plutonium, americium etc which stick to bone and tissue giving off gamma rays inside your body for the rest of your life damaging the surrounding cells DNA, causing cancer's.
Isn't the criticality alarm counter productive? Nuclear power is not my industry, logistics is and I have read many health and safety studies about the notifications and alarms for heavy equipment moves (beeps, alarms etc) that people become used to them and tune them out if they are constant or the noise does not change. There are trials of white noise that changes volume, pitch and frequency so people do not tune them out.
no we can't. Chernobyl was mainly caused by the total lack of any safety culture in the Soviet Union and has nothing to do with modern western NPP. And i know what i am talking about
You are almost right. It is to tell you that the criticality (neutron) detectors are functioning correctly. All plants with fissile material will have them. Looks like they took the tourist route round the flask facility and the storage ponds. Not sure where the last place was. I don't think it was the Vitrification plant. Not sure.
it is contained and no threat to the environment but as much of a nuclear enthusiast as i am the olympic sized swimming pool full of highly irradiated liquids is a death traps to workers which is why cleanup has been postponed for so long besides the huge expense and materials needed to keep humans safe during cleanup
Sellafield is a goldmine for atomic bomb material. I dont like the fact that its in our country and how everyone else dumps their country's waste in it.
