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Piggy Back Beta
SloGlo:
izziss idol curiosity or a test? dang, itz a freeking halliday 'n yinz want me two tink?
persunnully, eye wuzzant at da site uv origin. da phurst time dat eye remember (operative word, remember) piggyback beta being used ('n inna humorus weigh) wuz atta outage at da peach, 'n i yam tinking it wuz da fall uv 79, butt it cooda been at da spring 80 two.
alphadude:
its a CY thang i think.... denial of the fact that SS fuel clading was a big boondoggle - thats a Westinghouse/Cy thang..
surely that is still not going around.. anybody would know to look at the gamma spect, do some delay/decay counting, look at the part 61 analysis and go from there..
Its one thing to snow job the techs, its another to snow job your offsite disposal facility. Historically, all those companies that had PB Beta had fuel "stuff" identified in their part 61 analysis. So, why was the connection not made?? Denial, keep it quiet, avoid MPC calculations (predac), speed up sample count times, lower respiratory requirements- lots of financial incentive to invent PB Beta. A feather curve would tell you a lot of things.....
then there is the "bowled over gamma" invented by .........
RDTroja:
I was at Calvert Cliffs during the 'Piggy-back beta' uhhhhh... phenomenon. One calibrated absorber kit was all I needed to prove it was alpha when we found it. Fortunately it was on the PaR machine that had just come from another facility that will remain unnamed.
L._LaGarde:
--- Quote from: alphadude on Sep 04, 2007, 12:19 ---Historically, all those companies that had PB Beta had fuel "stuff" identified in their part 61 analysis. So, why was the connection not made??
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Part 61 came in around the end of '83 (I think). Prior to that, most of the waste manifests said something like "MFP" for mixed fission products. PB beta reigned in the late 70s/earlier 80s.
SloGlo:
--- Quote from: alphadude on Sep 04, 2007, 12:19 ---then there is the "bowled over gamma" invented by .........
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roflmao!!! itz bin a long, long time since eye hadda pleasure uv witnessing a bowling ball theory of alpha produckshun. oh mi garsh.......... roflmao, agin!
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