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nowhereman:
I first heard of it at CY but we knew better....
nearly eighteen years later after CY , I get a chance to read an INPO document that has the Iodine concentration at shutdown for CY (1989) somewhere at 10 + 2 umci/ml, that seems like the water would be awfully thick. (talk about timeliness for info for the techs)

I believe the first a/s  inside  the bowl of a s/g had the charcoal at 80 mr,
( i'm sure you rocky flats boy's have better stories)

It was a labor day weekend and they kept the plant up for a couple extra days to complete a record run,   to be followed by a lengthy shutdown.
I guess the FME programs nowadays seems to help.......

Camella Black:
Don't know when it started, but I owned the shirt. I thought it was a cool thing to wear back in my wild single days, only trouble is I wore the dang thing to Henry's parents home once. My poor mother in law didn't say a word. I don't know to this day whether she was struck dumb or too much of a lady to mention I had two pigs "makin bacon" on my shirt. LOL

Now that ya'll all made me feel old as the hills, I'm signing off - can you believe it been almost 30 years since that time?

McCahillg:

--- Quote from: SloGlo on Sep 02, 2007, 09:14 ---departmental management explanation for alpha contamination in a commercial nuclear power plant in the late 70-early 80s.

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First heard the term from Victor Anderson (RIP) at CY spring 1980 outage.  He was also the source of the letter to the NRC on the subject and the Piggyback beta T Shirt (making Bacon) all that outage. dropping an air sample particulate filter over a 40mR/hr wipe dropped the Alpha count from 9000 cpm to 2 cpm.

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