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The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spoke to reporters on Friday about an accident in which 3 workers were exposed to radiation in the turbine building of the No. 3 reactor.

It said 3.9 million becquerels of radiation was detected from 1 cubic centimeter of water sampled from the floor of the building. The radiation level was about 10,000 times higher than the water inside a normally operating nuclear reactor.

That's 3.9 billion Bq/kg...

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by DoDo on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 09:30:34 AM EST
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Isn't the turbine building a separate building from the reactor?

If I am not mistaken, in the picture the reactors are the 4 square buildings on top and the turbines are in the rectangulat buildings at the bottom.

So, in what may be my last act of "advising", I'll advise you to cut the jargon. -- My old PhD advisor, to me, 26/2/11

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 09:35:46 AM EST
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I think so, its the only logical place to have them, between the reactors and the outlet intake pool

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 09:46:02 AM EST
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Yep:

These BWR reactors do not have a secondary circuit.



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by DoDo on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 10:37:10 AM EST
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Theres a couple of emergency steam valves  in the pipework between reactor and turbine room, that I came across when looking for one of the radioactive materials,its in a PDF somewhere in here. there it discusses test closures under emergency shutdown on BWRs, and the ammount of escaping steam that occurred. the valves were supposedly leaking much more than was allowed

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 10:42:31 AM EST
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