Talk:Nuclear safety in the United States/Archive 1

Archive 1

Rocket-sled test film

Sandia has something wrong on the page with their rocket sled test. I wrote to them about it. Simesa 12:03, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Initial stub

Yes, I know I just scratched the surface of nuclear safety. I do expect a mighty oak to grow from this acorn. Simesa 11:35, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

It seems like right now there is a lot of information that's simply repeated from other pages. There's a lot that can go here, for instance, if you're talking about the FSAR, then there's an entire alphabet that should follow with COL, RSAC, NUPOP, and all that kind of thing. Those are specific procedure items present in the U.S. So I see the logic of having a place such as this for those, but please take a look at the Nuclear power in the United States article (which is already fairly neglected) and let's think about how to get the entire bunch of them to make sense. Happy editing! theanphibian 17:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

An example Reg Guide

Regulatory Guide 1.9. Simesa 13:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Dispute - Three Mile Island

According to Three Mile Island accident, this section is wrong. "From a safety viewpoint, the system functioned as designed.", well, I guess technically, it functioned as designed but the design was shown to be flawed. I'll leave it in but add the design was flawed. That way it can stay but we fix the POV to be correct. Fanra 09:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Exclusion Zone

Under "Protected Area", we read "The Protected Area encloses the Exclusion Zone calculated above." The "Exclusion Zone" is nowhere to be found elsewhere on this page. SalineBrain (talk) 18:04, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

The IAEA says facilities should at the design stage define an area to which public access is limited. [1]

The Canadians define the Exclusion Zone as “a parcel of land within or surrounding a nuclear facility on which there is no permanent dwelling and over which a licensee has the legal authority to exercise control.” in [2].

The U.S.'s "Exclusion Area" is defined in 10CFR100.3 as "Exclusion area means that area surrounding the reactor, in which the reactor licensee has the authority to determine all activities including exclusion or removal of personnel and property from the area. This area may be traversed by a highway, railroad, or waterway, provided these are not so close to the facility as to interfere with normal operations of the facility and provided appropriate and effective arrangements are made to control traffic on the highway, railroad, or waterway, in case of emergency, to protect the public health and safety. Residence within the exclusion area shall normally be prohibited. In any event, residents shall be subject to ready removal in case of necessity. Activities unrelated to operation of the reactor may be permitted in an exclusion area under appropriate limitations, provided that no significant hazards to the public health and safety will result." [3] In practice, the Protected Area (which is fenced in) encompasses the Exclusion Area. Simesa (talk) 23:55, 1 April 2009 (UTC)