Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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Monday, January 7, 2013

Filtered vents

http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/04/24/whats-so-hardened-about-vents/

Nov 05, 2012
A Nuclear Energy Institute executive identified deficiencies in a proposal by Nuclear Regulatory Commission technical staff to require GE Mark I and Mark II reactor designs to install filtered vents, saying the units are already ...
Nov 19, 2012
The draft paper recommends the installation of external filtered vents as the staff's preferred option for minimizing the release of radiation in a severe accident where nuclear fuel has been damaged. The ACRS letter instead ...
Jul 03, 2012
By MATTHEW L. WALD The debate over making post-Fukushima Daichi improvements to American reactors is getting down into the details, and one focus is pressure relief vents. ReutersOn Sunday in Tokyo, people ...
Mar 17, 2011
The big concern here is that unlike the releases from damaged fuel in the reactor cores of Units 1, 2, and 3, which were largely filtered by scrubbing in the containment suppression pools (wetwell torus), releases of volatile fission products (e.g., cesium and iodine) from these spent fuel pools have direct pathways to the environment, if they remain dry for an extended period. Efforts to deliver water ..... COMMENTARY: Crucial vents were not installed until... Debt Tsunami ...

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