Collecting links to public technical descriptions of NPPs

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In summary, this individual is thinking of creating an index page to help professionals locate helpful documents in the event of an emergency. They are concerned about the value of this project in the face of the public's fear of nuclear accidents. There is a need for professionals to have access to the technical information that has been considered safe to release to the public. However, the level of detail found in the first link of the individual's list is not sensitive enough to warrant release.
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One lesson from the early days of the Fukushima accident was that should something happen at an NPP anywhere around the world, there's an urgent and wide need everywhere to get as much technical background info of the plant concerned as possible. There are several databases around the world aiming to collect plant data centrally, but these usually lack the level of detail that would be necessary to be really useful. And being available for the general public is a value in itself, which many of the databases lack.

Since there are freely available documents around the Internet (in spite of many of them disappearing from free distribution following the 9/11 events), I have been thinking of creating an index page to help myself to quickly locate helpful documents, should a need arise. And, while at it, might as well make it public to help others in the same situation. As a first crude step, I started a thread on the discussion forum of the Finnish Nuclear Society to make it easier to quickly bookmark good documents, whenever such are encountered. The link is here:

http://www.ats-ydintekniikka.fi/toimituskeskustelu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=64 [Broken]

and all contributions are naturally more than welcome. Guest posting is allowed, so if you have some links to useful public technical data with relevance for reactor accident management you would like to share, from that thread they will find their way to the aforementioned link page.

Or, if the moderators see it fit, such links could possibly be posted directly to this thread as well?
 
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In the US, detailed technical descriptions are rather limited/restricted following the al Qaida attacks (9/11/01) on the WTC. Structural details of US NPPs are covered by National Security and Safeguards rules. Such information was removed from the public domain, and most of it is only available on a need-to-know basis.

http://www.nrc.gov/security.html
 
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Astronuc said:
In the US, detailed technical descriptions are rather limited/restricted following the al Qaida attacks (9/11/01) on the WTC. Structural details of US NPPs are covered by National Security and Safeguards rules. Such information was removed from the public domain, and most of it is only available on a need-to-know basis.

http://www.nrc.gov/security.html

Yes, that is a known issue and one there's no way around. Still, there's a lot of information out there (such as e.g. data about the existence and general descriptions of different safety systems, some information of their capacities etc.) that is insensitive enough to have been considered safe to allow to remain in the public domain. We professionals have access to most of the data we need (if we just have the time and patience to wait for it), but in my view, it would be really good from the point of view of communicating to the public and enabling an overall trust in the experts, if the data that has been considered safe to stay in the public would be "indexed" in a way that would be practically usable. The level of detail found in the first link of my list is an example of information that could be useful for many in spite of not giving out any structural details of the plant concerned. And a large number of analyses containing information regarding volumes of different safety systems etc. have still been considered safe enough to leave publicly available even in the US.

One problem with collecting data in different data bases is typically the issue of deciding what to give and what not to give. Therefore. I'm thinking of this different approach of not asking for any new information, but rather trying to find links to the different locations where information already exists (and apparently the judgement regarding the publicity of technical detail has been done).
 
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What's in the public domain or published is fine.
 
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rmattila said:
One lesson from the early days of the Fukushima accident was that should something happen at an NPP anywhere around the world, there's an urgent and wide need everywhere to get as much technical background info of the plant concerned as possible.

I'm not sure what value there would be in collecting technical information about nuclear power plants, especially in a publicly available database. There's a need to know issue, even if the effort is just aimed at collecting and organizing public information, and maybe more importantly there's a potential crackpot issue. As soon as something happens at a power plant, experts who know the systems better than anyone else are going to be on top of it, and random people chiming in based on limited knowledge and expertise would only confuse the public - who, remember, got frightened when newscasters told them that Fukushima radioactivity was showing up in milk on the other side of the ocean, and didn't grasp the concept that the amounts were miniscule and required sophisticated tests to quantify. Sometimes information overload is a bad thing.
 
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JeffKoch said:
Sometimes information overload is a bad thing.

Other times, not. A recurring motif in scary movies is the closed door, beyond which ANYTHING may lie. So too with nuclear power plants. Their workings are mysterious to the public and therefore somewhat scary.
 
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JeffKoch said:
I'm not sure what value there would be in collecting technical information about nuclear power plants, especially in a publicly available database.

I do not mean that any new database should be made, just that it would be good to have a rapid knowledge of the basic facts of the NPP affected. There is usually at least some data available concerning e.g. the emergency systems (electric / steam driven / something else) and the existence of severe accident mitigation systems, possibly some relevant accident analyses etc., but it may take a while to find it even though it is somewhere on the net. What I'm thinking of is simply to bookmark this data whenever encountered and putting the bookmarks in a single place.

During the first two days or so following the Fukushima accident, it was very difficult to get confirmation on even the basic facts of the plant (is unit 1 BWR/2, BWR/3 or BWR/4, are units 2 and 3 equipped with Mark I or Mark II containments, is there a RCIC/isolation condenser/some other system to prevent core meltdown at station blackout at the plant and so on.) There were several conflicting descriptions of the plant running around the media during the first couple of days, and in my view it took an unnecessarily long time to be sure of the very basic facts. Of course the Japanese were busy doing what was acutely needed, and providing basic information for people on the other side of the world - who did not need it from the urgent safety point of view, was understandably not among their first priorities.

Remembering that the Fukushima plant happens to be one of the best-documented NPP in the world, I could imagine a similar situation taking place in some other plant and another country would be an even more challenging task from the point of view of giving the local media the information they urgently need to keep the public informed. People are worried and need information even in places where the accident has no possibility to have any physical effect.

There's a need to know issue, even if the effort is just aimed at collecting and organizing public information, and maybe more importantly there's a potential crackpot issue. As soon as something happens at a power plant, experts who know the systems better than anyone else are going to be on top of it, and random people chiming in based on limited knowledge and expertise would only confuse the public - who, remember, got frightened when newscasters told them that Fukushima radioactivity was showing up in milk on the other side of the ocean, and didn't grasp the concept that the amounts were miniscule and required sophisticated tests to quantify. Sometimes information overload is a bad thing.

I agree on the problem, but I think rapid access to correct factual data - in the level of detail that has been agreed to be made public - would help, rather than prevent, the experts who are responsible for informing the local public to give better and more accurate information. Even though the experts can usually get access to the restricted information, it may take too long time from point of view of informing the media, and it would be easier to give information, if there was some public source material that could be used to supplement the conclusions of the plant situation.
 
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As an example, take this report. A really good overview of the different containment systems and their engineered safety features. Would probably have been a good supplement material when communicating to the public during the active phase of the Fukushima accident, and after having found it, I'll certainly bookmark it for future reference.
 
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There is a lot of information on the web already. For American plants, the NRC website has more information than I can hope to read in a lifetime. They have improved the search functions greatly, but could so better.

There are technical papers and reports available through DOE

There are websites for industry groups and manufacturers.

There are websites for IAEA, ICEA and many international organizations. Perhaps IAEA might be the best organization to host such a database.

Your best bet would be a list of websites that already exist. Building a separate database would require continuous maintenance to ensure information is current. Further the information posted would need to be screened to avoid disclosing classified or proprietary information. (To protect the host organization for the database.)

Inevitably, it will not be a complete database, so it may be a matter of luck whether it helps at all. For example, do you think there would be much information from North Korea or Iran?
 
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NUCENG said:
Your best bet would be a list of websites that already exist.

That's exactly what I'm after.

Inevitably, it will not be a complete database, so it may be a matter of luck whether it helps at all. For example, do you think there would be much information from North Korea or Iran?

That will always be a challenge. American plants are pretty well covered, thanks to the NRC public documentation, as are some of the reactor types used in the former Soviet Union (due to international projects aimed at improving their safety in the early 1990's). Nordic plants have some information available as well. But I have no idea what resources there exists for e.g. the newer French or German plants, if the need would arise to quickly provide information for the media or public. Or CANDUs, for that matter. Or the South Korean reactors that are now being marketed internationally.

IAEA is the right organization to collect plant specific data in their own database and distribute it to the organizations with a legitimate need for it, and there's no point (and no possibilities) to reproduce their effort, although I've understood they have met into some difficulties getting information after the 9/11 events as well. What I think could and should be done is what was already mentioned in the beginning: a navigation page helping to find resources that already exist in the Internet so that one would not need to waste time doing endless googling hoping to find something, when the heat is already on.
 
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rmattila said:
During the first two days or so following the Fukushima accident, it was very difficult to get confirmation on even the basic facts of the plant (is unit 1 BWR/2, BWR/3 or BWR/4, are units 2 and 3 equipped with Mark I or Mark II containments, is there a RCIC/isolation condenser/some other system to prevent core meltdown at station blackout at the plant and so on.) There were several conflicting descriptions of the plant running around the media during the first couple of days, and in my view it took an unnecessarily long time to be sure of the very basic facts.

I guess my point is, there is no need for you or I to know these very basic facts. We might feel better having some knowledge and understanding, but we have no right to this information and there's nothing useful we could do with it except feel better and perhaps a bit smug when we tell others about the details. And non-technical people, which is most people, won't understand the details anyway - they will listen to what they hear from their favorite news source, and that in turn will be whatever the source thinks is newsworthy and will attract viewers/readers and therefore, at the end of the day, money.
 
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JeffKoch said:
I guess my point is, there is no need for you or I to know these very basic facts. We might feel better having some knowledge and understanding, but we have no right to this information and there's nothing useful we could do with it except feel better and perhaps a bit smug when we tell others about the details. And non-technical people, which is most people, won't understand the details anyway - they will listen to what they hear from their favorite news source, and that in turn will be whatever the source thinks is newsworthy and will attract viewers/readers and therefore, at the end of the day, money.

I can only speak for myself, but I found it very difficult, when the media was pressing for any bits of information to give to the concerned public, and there were huge gaps in my knowledge of these basic facts. Until I got the confirmation that units 2 and 3 have a turbine-powered RCIC, it would have been impossible to give any answers to questions regarding the threat of an immediate large release following a plant blackout. Fortunately the plant design happened to be a pretty well documented one, and the gaps were filled through relentless effort amidst answering the constantly ringing phone, but I would not mind repeating that exercise, if it was possible to do part of the searching of the material beforehand.

I mean, the quality of reporting by the media could be improved, if experts with sufficient knowledge to interpret the data coming from the responsible organizations (TEPCO and NISA in this case) would have some supporting material that could be used to explain the facts to the media and also improving to maintain an own mental image of the situation. It was very frustrating to explain the basic principles of decay heat removal systems and probable course of action if they fail, and then see the article in next day's paper, where the turbine hall is called a "reactor" and water is said to be pumped in the reactor with diesel generators to provide electricity for the instruments needed to cool the reactor which may explode if allowed to pressurize. And a picture of a PWR with cooling towers to supplement the text.

I think that in our current age, where the Internet enables rapid distribution of data from all around the world, it simply is not enough to tell the media that we don't need to know the details. Then they will go to other sources to find the bits of information needed for writing the article that will attract readers, and it is very probable this information has a weaker level of factuality than the data I would be able to give, based on my general knowledge of the field supported with the bits of detail there is available.
 
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JeffKoch said:
I guess my point is, there is no need for you or I to know these very basic facts.

I disagree. When your neighborhood NPP starts feeling sick, information on such basic matters as what kind of containment it has become something you will urgently want to know.

And non-technical people, which is most people, won't understand the details anyway - they will listen to what they hear from their favorite news source

...and where will that news source get its info from? The pre-approved experts will probably be busy.
 
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Based on rmattila's clarification that what he would like to see is primarily a list of sources that already exist, I think his idea is worth consideration. There was a lot of amazement expressed when astronuc or I would pull information off the NRC website or from the DOE Bridge. These are open sources that are there for informing the industry and can also be used by experts or news media or anti-nuclear activists or just curious folks. Some of us are used to searching this resource, because we have done it for years as part of our work. Believe me the people over a UCS are experts at researching what is out there and obtaining access to even draft information like SOARCA.

Other than Safeguards information and legitimate proprietary information, the more information is available the easier it will be to provide evidence to blow the conspiracy theorists out of the water. It won't stop them, of course, because it will all be dismissed as propaganda and lies, but it may be better than some of the speculation and wild guesses that have been difficult to challenge in the past.

I will point out one other thing. In this crisis the Physics Forums have actually become an excellent resource for helping interpret technical data and even providing translation clarifications. The mentors have helped keep bloodshed to a minimum and tried to keep us on topic. Hopefully this kind of resource will be there for future issues (hopefully not related to nuclear plants).
 
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rowmag said:
I disagree. When your neighborhood NPP starts feeling sick, information on such basic matters as what kind of containment it has become something you will urgently want to know.

You may, but the average person doesn't know the first thing about containment, and is not equipped by training, knowledge or temperment to gather and evaluate factual information and make informed choices - he wants to be told what to do and how to think about the situation by someone he trusts. This is also true for people in leadership positions, who need to rely on trusted experts to educate them just enough to make decisions. Gathering information is fine provided it's not held secret for security or proprietary reasons, but we need to recognize that not everyone wanting access to this information has the pursuit and dissemination of truth as a goal - some will take what suits them and use it to futher their own agendas, for example ringing panic bells for ideological purposes (scaring people about nuclear power, for example - or the global warming naysayers). Knowledge is power, but unnecessary knowledge in the wrong hands tends to come back in unexpected and undesireable ways.
 
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JeffKoch said:
I guess my point is, there is no need for you or I to know these very basic facts.

I disagree wholly. Without facts there cannot be insights. "Facts" do not include only the basic facts about the plants but also the radiation measurements, the radiation forecasts and so on, all the new information that needs to be quickly analyzed as a basis for decision making.

When a dramatic and big event happens - like Fukushima - it takes days and months before a deeper understanding evolves what is really going on. Although TEPCO has technical details of the plant it doesn't mean they know exactly from the first day on what would be the best way to act. This latter needs insight.

I am only here taking one example. The local government didn't use early SPEEDI data to define evacuation zones - or expand them. This was not because the SPEEDI couldn't give enough results, it was more or less because the local government didn't completely understand how SPEEDI is working. It was afterwards they gave the explanation that there was not enough real data to support SPEEDI forecasts.

Now if they had published early SPEEDI data worldwide right from the beginning I am quite sure there would have been enough experts around the world to say that the evacuation zones should be expanded in some areas. And if Japanese government had indeed done that right from the beginning everybody would be happier.

After all TEPCO and Japanese government have limited amount of experts working there. The more experts are seeing the basic facts the more likely is it that the correct conclusions are made. It's not that the outside experts are better - it's just that the Internet and rapid access to information all around the world has completely changed the way information should be understood. It's no longer "private", it's "shared".

I am absolutely sure that this applies both ways. Also TEPCO experts every now and then check what is going on in the Internet - just to make sure that they have not "missed" anything important (I mean insights, not the facts). And for this to work these basic facts should be made public as much as possible.

Once the basic information can be shared in an open way, also the insights can be shared. It should no longer be a black-box situation where people (experts and the others like me) all around the world just listen what the local experts have to say - it should be more like a box with some holes in it so some fresh air keeps moving all the time inside out and outside in.

Sources:

The Japanese government has expressed regret for not disclosing some important results of the radiation monitoring conducted near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant soon after the accident. -- He [Professor Yasuyuki Muramatsu] says that if the data had been released earlier, more measures could have been taken to protect them [children] from exposure.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2729788/posts

Mr. Hosono, the minister charged with dealing with the nuclear crisis, has said that certain information, including the Speedi data, had been withheld for fear of “creating a panic.” In an interview, Mr. Hosono — who now holds nearly daily news conferences with Tepco officials and nuclear regulators — said that the government had “changed its thinking” and was trying to release information as fast as possible.

http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011...or-withholding-of-information-akin-to-murder/

"The SPEEDI radiation forecasts were not properly utilized and a situation was invited in which residents were made vulnerable to more exposure than necessary," Toshiso Kosako, also a professor at the University of Tokyo, wrote in late April.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/09/ap-impact-japan-ignored-own-radiation-forecasts/
 
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~kujala~ said:
After all TEPCO and Japanese government have limited amount of experts working there. The more experts are seeing the basic facts the more likely is it that the correct conclusions are made. It's not that the outside experts are better - it's just that the Internet and rapid access to information all around the world has completely changed the way information should be understood. It's no longer "private", it's "shared".

This.
JeffKoch said:
You may, but the average person doesn't know the first thing about containment, and is not equipped by training, knowledge or temperment to gather and evaluate factual information and make informed choices - he wants to be told what to do and how to think about the situation by someone he trusts.

One thing we see in any kind of disaster is that the average person doesn't trust authorities to be forthcoming. Another reason to have lots of eyes interpreting the info.
 
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Thank goodness scientists and engineers only very rarely find their ways to positions of real authority and power. :smile:
 
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JeffKoch said:
This is also true for people in leadership positions, who need to rely on trusted experts to educate them just enough to make decisions.

You seem to assume that the experts all around the world would have immediate access to all data they need. Unfortunately in my experience this is not true. And concerning for example the Fukushima accident, it is quite understandable that the responsible organizations in Japan were busy doing more acute things than providing the experts all around the world the data they would need to advise their decisionmakers in countries far away from Japan. There simply was no other way than to search for pieces of information from all possible sources, including the public ones. And it turned out that in the case of Fukushima, the publicly available information would have been quite sufficient, if it only would have been rapidly accessible. So I'm not thinking of just the general public here, but also the experts, who should be able to concentrate their limited resources on making analysis rather than hunting for random pieces of information.

Gathering information is fine provided it's not held secret for security or proprietary reasons, but we need to recognize that not everyone wanting access to this information has the pursuit and dissemination of truth as a goal - some will take what suits them and use it to futher their own agendas, for example ringing panic bells for ideological purposes (scaring people about nuclear power, for example - or the global warming naysayers). Knowledge is power, but unnecessary knowledge in the wrong hands tends to come back in unexpected and undesireable ways.

Do you think it's better if those with an ideological agenda use incorrect and faulty data as basis for their argumentation? I can't see how access by anyone to as accurate and correct information as possible from safeguards point of view could be a negative thing. If this leads to discovery of problems, don't you think it's a good idea to recognize them and thus be able to make the necessary corrections?
 
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~kujala~ said:

This link is not working now, here is a working one with the same content:

http://www.nippon-sekai.com/main/articles/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant-crisis/government-failed-to-release-some-radiation-data-after-the-accident/ [Broken]
 
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"but unnecessary knowledge in the wrong hands tends to come back in unexpected and undesireable ways."

Jesus wept:biggrin:
 
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Caniche said:
"but unnecessary knowledge in the wrong hands tends to come back in unexpected and undesireable ways."

Jesus wept:biggrin:

Not just Caniche, but all those who have opposed what rmattila has suggested.

I am confused as to what you are against. If a compiled list of existing sites was developed it would not add one piece of data that is not already available. It would simply make it easier to find data that is already out there.

And what exactly are the wrong hands? Why are we concerned with the "average person" finding data that already is out there?

I have spent significant time and effort in my career developing explanations and clarifications for public affairs specialists and lawyers in response to questions raised by the intervenors out there. These are people who have enough knowledge and a bias to try to put everything in the worst possible light. If the "average person" is lazy and accepts that bias, we are no better off or worse off than before. If on the other hand that "average person" is really interested and can find information that shows the bias for what it is, we will at least be able to start to poke holes in the accusation of secrecy and lies.

The nuclear industry has had its bad apples. Embarassments like Davis Besse's hole in the head and Maine Yankee's fudging fuel design codes, and Fukushima's lack of adequate design basis prove the need for regulatory oversight and public review of nuclear safety. If we can't stand up to that scrutiny we shouldn't be trusted. On the other hand I am proud of the experience I have had working with people who are dedicated to operating and designing plants that minimize the real risks of working with nuclear fission. It may be more work to answer questions, but not answering those questions plays directly into the hands of opponents.

You can't combat ignorance and fear with the kinds of press releases and "reassurances" that came from TEPCO in the early days after the accident. It may have delayed or prevented panic, but it has generated mistrust and anger that may be more dangerous in the long run. You fight ignorance with information. You fight fear with honesty and leadership. The more we learn about Fukushima Daiichi, the more clear it becomes that those three things were in very short supply.
 
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Contributin'

CANDU 6 reactors.

producer's technical summary:
http://www.aecl.ca/Assets/Publications/C6-Technical-Summary.pdf?method=1 [Broken]

IAEA summary of heavy water reactor tech
http://canteach.candu.org/library/D407_scr1.pdf [Broken]
Esp. chapter 3.1 which includes safety info, incl. wrt the positive void reactivity coefficient exhibited by such reactors.
 
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NUCENG said:
...

Exactly, well said.
 
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NUCENG said:
Not just Caniche, but all those who have opposed what rmattila has suggested.

I am confused as to what you are against. If a compiled list of existing sites was developed it would not add one piece of data that is not already available. It would simply make it easier to find data that is already out there.

And what exactly are the wrong hands? Why are we concerned with the "average person" finding data that already is out there?

I have spent significant time and effort in my career developing explanations and clarifications for public affairs specialists and lawyers in response to questions raised by the intervenors out there. These are people who have enough knowledge and a bias to try to put everything in the worst possible light. If the "average person" is lazy and accepts that bias, we are no better off or worse off than before. If on the other hand that "average person" is really interested and can find information that shows the bias for what it is, we will at least be able to start to poke holes in the accusation of secrecy and lies.

The nuclear industry has had its bad apples. Embarassments like Davis Besse's hole in the head and Maine Yankee's fudging fuel design codes, and Fukushima's lack of adequate design basis prove the need for regulatory oversight and public review of nuclear safety. If we can't stand up to that scrutiny we shouldn't be trusted. On the other hand I am proud of the experience I have had working with people who are dedicated to operating and designing plants that minimize the real risks of working with nuclear fission. It may be more work to answer questions, but not answering those questions plays directly into the hands of opponents.

You can't combat ignorance and fear with the kinds of press releases and "reassurances" that came from TEPCO in the early days after the accident. It may have delayed or prevented panic, but it has generated mistrust and anger that may be more dangerous in the long run. You fight ignorance with information. You fight fear with honesty and leadership. The more we learn about Fukushima Daiichi, the more clear it becomes that those three things were in very short supply.

Strange then ,given your long analytical career that you manage to somehow completely misinterpret a post that followed in a thread in which you have been active from the start??
You misattribute the post used (the original belongs to "Jeffkoch") and in so doing manage to come up with a something of an Hegelian inversion. I'm sure any misrepresentation was purely unintentional and the result of tiredness or simply a hurried response.
So for the sake of unambiguous clarity let me state that I AGREE with rmattila's position. Hope that ends your confusion . All the best C
 
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Caniche said:
Strange then ,given your long analytical career that you manage to somehow completely misinterpret a post that followed in a thread in which you have been active from the start??
You misattribute the post used (the original belongs to "Jeffkoch") and in so doing manage to come up with a something of an Hegelian inversion. I'm sure any misrepresentation was purely unintentional and the result of tiredness or simply a hurried response.
So for the sake of unambiguous clarity let me state that I AGREE with rmattila's position. Hope that ends your confusion . All the best C

If my post showed a misunderstanding of your post, mea culpa. As to Hegelian inversions, perhaps it was more simply a cranial-rectal inversion. Thanks for your clarification of your first post. Could you clarify this one, too?

:biggrin:
 
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NUCENG said:
If my post showed a misunderstanding of your post, mea culpa. As to Hegelian inversions, perhaps it was more simply a cranial-rectal inversion. Thanks for your clarification of your first post. Could you clarify this one, too?

:biggrin:

Thank you for your kind response, most enlightening . Any further clarification would be pointless.
 
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I have begun reading Masanori Naito's article (https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3486190&postcount=611). He says one of the first available Fukushima accident simulations was one made by Chris Allison of Innovative Systems Software which was made in March and then communicated to an IAEA meeting. Because he ignored the Fukushima plant data, he simulated with the Laguna Verde plant data in Mexico. So it is quite clear that when an accident occurs, the plant data are not available 1) to the people who need them 2) apparently, not even to the IAEA.
 
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Brochures of Gösgen and Leibstadt NPP:s in Switzerland:

Gösgen: http://www.kkg.ch/upload/cms/user/KKG_Broschre_E.pdf [Broken]
Leibstadt: http://www.kkl.ch/upload/cms/user/LOWRES_KKL_TB_Juni2011.pdf [Broken]
 
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1. What is the purpose of collecting links to public technical descriptions of NPPs?

The purpose of collecting links to public technical descriptions of NPPs is to provide a comprehensive and easily accessible database of information about nuclear power plants. This information is vital for researchers, engineers, and policymakers to understand the design, operation, and safety of NPPs.

2. How are the links to technical descriptions of NPPs collected?

The links to technical descriptions of NPPs are collected through various sources such as official websites of nuclear regulatory bodies, government agencies, and independent organizations. These links are then verified and organized into a database for easy access.

3. Are the technical descriptions of NPPs publicly available?

Yes, most technical descriptions of NPPs are publicly available. However, some countries may have restrictions on the release of certain information due to security concerns. In such cases, the available information may be limited.

4. How often are the links to technical descriptions of NPPs updated?

The links to technical descriptions of NPPs are regularly updated to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the information. This process may vary depending on the availability of new information and changes in regulations or design of NPPs.

5. Can the collected links be used for commercial purposes?

The collected links to technical descriptions of NPPs are intended for educational and informational purposes only. Any commercial use of this information would require permission from the respective sources of the links.

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