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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
S. Barsali, R. Bovalini, F. Fineschi, B. Guerrini, S. Lanza, M. Mazzini, R. Mirandola
Nuclear Technology | Volume 23 | Number 2 | August 1974 | Pages 146-156
Reactor | Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31448
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Twelve experimental runs on molecular iodine removal by sprays were carried out in the 95m3 PSICO 10 model containment vessel (MCV). Both service water and a water solution containing 1% sodium thiosulphate were sprayed through two different nozzles; the elemental iodine removal half-times obtained by spraying service water do not differ greatly from those found by spraying thiosulphate solution. The sprayed solution was, in some cases, recirculated for a period ranging from 1 to 11 h without any release of iodine to the atmosphere. Some runs were performed with fractions of the MCV volume not sprayed. The elemental iodine removal half-times in the sprayed and unsprayed regions do not essentially differ.
