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| This page published on this web site: 02-12-05 |
A note from the editor for The Nuclear Project: After about an hour into a NASA TV program and looking at all the stuff NOAA and the National Weather people have to work with, like cool planes, neat computer programs, tons of cool instruments and all of that, it came to me............ Why on earth does the NRC [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] and the nuclear power industry only use a, "just to get by" radiation monitoring program???? The current program: The short of it. NRC TLD DIRECT RADIATION MONITORING NETWORK The network is operated by the NRC to provide continuous measurement of the ambient radiation levels around nuclear power plants during routine facility operations. All radiation measurements are made using small, passive detectors called thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs), which provide a quantitative measurement of the radiation levels. Each nuclear power plant site is monitored by arranging approximately 40 to 50 TLD stations in two concentric rings extending to about five miles from the facility. NOW OPEN FOR DEBATE: If they can come up with all that great stuff to go after the weather, why does the NRC still use a system that to me looks like it could be a lot better, a more advanced system, a more detailed system. A system that gives the real data. Not haphazard.
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