Kernenergie krijgt wéér een zware klap: 2 reactoren stilgelegd, bijna ramp
 

Ik plaats dit bij 'binnenlandse politiek' omdat het kernenergie-debat bij ons woedt, maar uiteraard referenties naar kernenergie in heel Europa vereist. Welnu:

Zonder paniek te zaaien (in Zweden zijn ze al hysterisch genoeg): de lijst van 'op het nippertje' vermeden rampen wordt steeds langer. De mythe dat kernenergie zeer veilig is, en dat Tsjernobil maar een randfenomeen is, wordt hoe langer hoe meer onhoudbaar.

Prima. We hebben dus 2 reactoren waar een rubberen vloermat niet meer elastisch was.

Waarop baseer ik mijn uitspraak . Op het feit dat een kernreactor een blok roestvast staal is, die als ie in volle productie is, 270°C aan de buitenkant word. Wat die rubber matten daar zoeken weet ik niet.

Dezelfde centrale had een paar maand geleden een probleem met 2 van de 4 noodgeneratoren. Deze noodgeneratoren hebben niks te maken met het nucleaire gedeelte, dus die net vermeden ramp zal wel een uitspraak geweest zijn van "GreenPeace Experts".

Ik heb de indruk dat we hier een reeks van draden gaan krijgen, telkens met een titel "tweede, derde, vierde vijfde zesde, dertigste .... zware klap voor de kernenergie".

Gisteren heb ik mijn pinken verbrand aan mijn kookfornuis dat op aardgas werkt. Zware klap voor die relatief propere energiedrager !!

Deze morgen was er een birdstrike op Zaventem: zware klap voor de luchtvaart !!

Is dit een forum of is dit een klankbord voor propagandistische doeleinden?

Tiens, hoeveel rampen heb jij dan al zien gebeuren? Ondanks de "onveiligheid" waarop je hier prat wenst te gaan, zijn er toch maar bitter weinig rampen die je helpen de mythe te debunken.

Een metafoortje: als u een klein vreemd vlekje op uw huid ziet, dan kan dat een symptoom zijn van een veel groter probleem waarvan de uitbreiding niet meer te stoppen valt. U bent dan terminaal. En dat is niet fijn.

De rubberen buitenpanelen van de reactor - niet zomaar een vloermat - toonden een mogelijk symptoom van een gevaarlijke malfunctie. Daarom werden de reactoren stilgelegd.

U moet toch toegeven dat kernenergie in vergelijking met alternatieven - zoals het planten van nen boom voor biomassa - iets meer risico in zich draagt.

List of nuclear and radiation incidents:

1. Three Mile Island Unit 2, CDP = 1.000, (28-Mar-1979)
2. Browns Ferry Unit 1, CDP = 0.200, (22-Mar-1975) (ref NRC IE BULLETIN NO. - 75-04A)
3. Rancho Seco, CDP = 0.100, (20-Mar-1978)
4. Davis-Besse, CDP = 0.070, (24-Sep-1977)
5. Turkey Point Unit 3, CDP = 0.020, (8-May-1974)
6. Davis-Besse, CDP = 0.010, (9-Jun-1985)
7. Salem Unit 1, CDP = 0.010, (27-Nov-1978)
8. Millstone Unit 2, CDP = 0.010, (20-Jul-1976)
9. Brunswick Unit 2, CDP = 0.009, (29-Apr-1975)
10. Brunswick Unit 1, CDP = 0.007, (19-Apr-1981)
11. Davis-Besse, CDP = 0.006, (27-Feb-2002)
12. Harris Unit 1, CDP = 0.006, (3-Apr-1991)
13. Salem Unit 1, CDP = 0.005, (25-Feb-1983)
14. Millstone Unit 2, CDP = 0.005, (2-Jan-1981)
15. Crystal River Unit 3, CDP = 0.005, (26-Feb-1980)
16. Farley Unit 1, CDP = 0.005, (25-Mar-1978)
17. Davis-Besse, CDP = 0.005, (11-Dec-1977)
18. Kewaunee, CDP = 0.005, (5-Nov-1975)
19. Point Beach Unit 1, CDP = 0.005, (7-Apr-1974)
20. Wolf Creek Unit 1, CDP = 0.003, (17-Sep-1994)
21. Catawba Unit 1, CDP = 0.003, (13-Jun-1986)
22. Calvert Cliffs Unit 1, CDP = 0.003, (13-Apr-1978)
23. Hatch Unit 1, CDP = 0.002, (15-May-1985)
24. Lasalle Unit 1, CDP = 0.002, (21-Sep-1984)
25. Davis-Besse, CDP = 0.002, (24-Jun-1981)
26. Oyster Creek, CDP = 0.002, (2-May-1979)
27. Zion Unit 2, CDP = 0.002, (12-Jul-1977)
28. Turkey Point Unit 3, CDP = 0.001, (27-Dec-1986)
29. St. Lucie Unit 1, CDP = 0.001, (11-Jun-1980)
30. Davis-Besse, CDP = 0.001, (19-Apr-1980)
31. Hatch Unit 2, CDP = 0.001, (3-Jun-1979)
32. Cooper, CDP = 0.001, (31-Aug-1977)
33. Point Beach Unit 1, CDP = 0.001, (12-Jan-1971)

List of civilian radiation accidents:
1950s

• March, 1957– Employees of a Houston company licensed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to encapsulate sources for radiographic cameras were exposed to iridium-192 powder (resulting in radiation burns to the two workers directly exposed). The 192Ir powder was then spread to several homes and cars in the community. The incident was reported in Look Magazine in 1961; investigations published by the Mayo Clinic that same year found few of the radiological injuries claimed in widespread press reports, but failed to assuage public fears that followed publicity of the accident.
• September, 1957– Kyshtym accident near Chelyabinsk-40, USSR: about 7.4xl017 Bq of radioactive products were ejected forming a kilometer-high radioactive cloud that left a radioactive trace of 15,000 sq.km., as a result of the explosion of a waste tank.

[edit] 1960s

• 21 January 1969 In Lucens, Switzerland, a pilot power reactor suffers a loss of coolant accident and partial core meltdown. Almost all of the radiation is contained inside the cavern containing the reactor. INES Level 4 Accident.

[edit] 1970s

• July 16, 1979 (34th anniversary of the Trinity test) – In Church Rock, New Mexico, the earth/clay dike of a uranium mill's settling/evaporating pond fails. The pond was past its planned and licensed life and had been filled two feet (60 cm) deeper than design, despite evident cracking. The incident drains about 100 million US gallons (380,000 m³) of radioactive liquids and 1100 short tons (1000 metric tons) of solid wastes, which settle out up to 70 miles (100 km) down the Rio Puerco[2]
• September 29, 1979 - Tritium leak at American Atomics in Tucson, Arizona; at the public school across the street from the plant, $300,000 worth of food is found to be contaminated; chocolate cake had 56 nCi/L; by contrast, the EPA safety limit for drinking water is 20 nCi/L (740 Bq/L) based on consumption of 2 liters per day.[3][4][5][6]

[edit] 1980s

• February 11, 1981 – A new worker inadvertently opened a valve and more than 100,000 U.S. gallons (380 m³) of slightly radioactive water leaked into the containment building of the Tennessee Valley Authority Sequoyah 1 nuclear power plant in rural Tennessee. Fourteen workers came into contact with the water.[7]
• March 1981 – More than 100 workers were exposed to doses of up to 155 millirem per day radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan, violating the company's limit of 100 millirems (1 mSv) per day. [8]
• July 1981 – Lycoming, Nine Mile Point, New York. An overloaded wastewater tank was deliberately flushed into the waste building sub-basement, filling it to a depth of four feet. This caused some of the approximately one hundred fifty 55 U.S. gallon drums that were stored there to overturn and spill their contents. Fifty thousand U.S. gallons (190 m³) of lesser-contaminated water was discharged into Lake Ontario. [9][ NRC Region 1 augmented inspection team (AIT) inspection report# (50-220/89-90) of the use of the Radwaste building sub-basement as a long term liquid retention facility at Nine Mile Point unit 1.] October 2, 1989
• 1982 – International Nutronics of Dover, New Jersey spilled an unknown quantity of radioactive cobalt solution used to treat gems for color, modify chemicals, and sterilize food and medical supplies. The solution spilled into the Dover sewer system and forced the closure of the plant. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was only informed of the accident ten months later by a whistleblower. In 1986 International Nutronics was fined $35,000 and one of its top executives was sentenced to probation for failure to report the spill. [10][11][12]
• December 6, 1983 – Juarez Mexico, A local resident salvaged materials from a discarded radiation therapy machine carrying 6000 pellets of 60Co. The dismantling and transport of the material led to severe contamination of his truck; when the truck was scrapped, it in turn contaminated another 5000 metric tons of steel with an estimated 300 Ci (11 TBq) of activity. This material was sold for kitchen or restaurant table legs and building materials some of which was sent to the U.S. and Canada; the incident was discovered when a truck delivering contaminated building materials months later to the Los Alamos National Laboratory accidentally drove through a radiation monitoring station. Contamination was later measured on the roads that were used to transport the original damaged radiation source. In some cases pellets were actually found embedded in the roadway. In the state of Sinaloa, 109 houses were condemned due to contaminated building material. This incident prompted the NRC and US Customs Service to install radiation detection equipment at all major border crossings. [13] [http://www.nuclearfiles.org/hitimeline/nwa/80/1984.html
• 1985 to 1987, Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. It was involved with at least six known accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, which were in some cases on the order of hundreds of grays. At least five patients died of the overdoses. These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems.
• January 6, 1986 – At the Kerr-McGee nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Gore, Oklahoma, a cylinder of uranium hexafluoride burst after being improperly heated. One worker died of caustic chemical exposure, 30 were injured.[14][15]
• 1986 – The NRC revoked the license of a Radiation Technology, Inc. (RTI) plant in New Jersey for worker safety violations. A safety device to prevent people from entering the irradiation chamber during operation had been bypassed. A worker had received a near-lethal dose of radiation. RTI was cited 32 times. Violations also included throwing radioactive garbage out with the regular trash.[16]
• January 1987 – A Columbia University undergraduate steals radioactive 238U from an abandoned basement lab, where Enrico Fermi had conducted his early fission experiments, and hides the uranium in his roommate's alarm clock. A USNRC investigation found no significant harm to person or property, though the student was expelled.[1]
• September 13, 1987 – In the Goiânia accident, scavengers broke open a radiation-therapy machine in an abandoned clinic of Goiânia, Brazil. They sold the kilocurie (40 TBq) Caesium-137 source as a glowing curiosity. Four hundred were contaminated, four die.[17]
• June 6, 1988 – Radiation Sterilizers in Decatur, Georgia, reported a leak of 137Cs at their facility. Seventy thousand medical supply containers and milk cartons were recalled. Ten employees were exposed, and three "had enough on them that they contaminated other surfaces", including their homes and cars.[18]
• 5 February 1989 Three workers were exposed to gamma rays from the 60Co source in a medical products irradiation plant in San Salvador, El Salvador. The most exposed person died while the other two lost limbs. This was a human error accident where a person made the wrong choice to enter the irradiation room.[19]

[edit] 1990s

• June 24, 1990 – Soreq, Israel An operator at a commercial irradiation facility bypassed the safety systems on the JS6500 sterilizer to clear a jam in the product conveyor area. The one to two minute exposure resulted in a whole body dose estimated at 10 Gy or more. He died 36 days later despite extensive medical care. See Fool Irradation [20] for a discussion of this type of event. [21]
• October 26, 1991 – Nesvizh, Belarus An operator at an atomic sterilization facility bypassed the safety systems to clear a jammed conveyor. Upon entering the irradiation chamber he was exposed to an estimated whole body dose of 11 Gy, with some portions of the body receiving upwards of 20 Gy. Prompt intensive medical care managed to keep him alive for 113 days after the accident.[22]
• April 6, 1993 – Tomsk, Russia At the Tomsk-7 Siberian Chemical Enterprise plutonium reprocessing facility, a pressure buildup led to an explosive mechanical failure in a 34 cubic meter stainless steel reaction vessel buried in a concrete bunker under building 201 of the radiochemical works. The vessel contained a mixture of concentrated nitric acid, uranium (8757 kg), plutonium (449 g) along with a mixture of radioactive and organic waste from a prior extraction cycle. The explosion dislodged the concrete lid of the bunker and blew a large hole in the roof of the building, releasing approximately 6 GBq of 239Pu and 30 TBq of various other radionuclides into the environment. The accident exposed 160 on-site workers and almost two thousand cleanup workers to total doses of up to 50 mSv (the threshold limit for radiation workers is 100 mSv per 5 years)[23]. The contamination plume extended 28 km NE of building 201, 20 km beyond the facility property. The small village of Georgievka (pop. 200) was at the end of the fallout plume, but no fatalities, illnesses or injuries were reported. [24]
• August 31, 1994 – Commerce Township, Michigan David Hahn's experimental reactor was discovered in his mother's back yard. The unshielded reactor exposed his neighborhood to 1,000 times the normal levels of background radiation.
• October 21, 1994 a large 137Cs source is stolen by scrap metal scavengers in Tammiku, Estonia.[25]
• May 1998 – Recycler Acerinox in Cádiz, Spain, unwittingly melts scrap metal containing radioactive sources; the radioactive cloud drifts all the way to Switzerland before being detected.[26][27]
• 1999 – A road near Mrima Hill, Kenya was rebuilt using local materials later found to be radioactive. Some workers were exposed to excessive radiation, and many residents of the area were tested for exposure. 2,975 tons of roadway material were to be dug up to eliminate the hazard. [28]

[edit] 2000s

• February 9, 2002 – Two workers were exposed to a small amount of radiation and suffered minor burns when a fire broke out at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station in Miyagi Prefecture. The fire occurred in the basement of reactor #3 during a routine inspection when a spray can was punctured accidentally, igniting a sheet of plastic. [29]
• March 11, 2002 – A 2.5 metric ton 60Co gamma source was transported from Cookridge Hospital, Leeds, UK, to Sellafield with defective shielding. As the radiation escaped from the package downwards into the ground, it is not thought that this event caused any injury or disease in either a human or an animal. This event was treated in a serious manner because the defense in depth type of protection for the source had been eroded. If the container had been tipped over in a road crash then a strong beam of gamma rays would have been directed in a direction where it would be likely to irradate humans. The company responsible for the transport of the source, AEA Technology plc, was fined £250,000 by a British court.
• 2003 – Cape of Navarin, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) located on the Arctic shore was discovered in a highly degraded state. The level of the exposition dose at the generator surface was as high as 15 R/h; in July 2004 a second inspection of the same RTG showed that gamma radiation emission had risen to 87 R/h and that 90Sr had begun to leak into the environment. [30] In November 2003, a completely dismantled RTG located on the Island of Yuzhny Goryachinsky in the Kola Bay was found. The generator's radioactive heat source was found on the ground near the shoreline in the northern part of the island. [31]
• September 10, 2004 – Yakutia, Russia. Two radioisotope thermoelectric generators — were dropped 50 meters onto the tundra at Zemlya Bunge island during an airlift when the helicopter flew into heavy weather. According to the nuclear regulators, the impact compromised the RTGs' external radiation shielding. At a height of 10 meters above the impact site, the intensity of gamma radiation was measured at 4 millisieverts per hour. [32]
• 2005 – Dounreay, UK. In September, the site's cementation plant was closed when 266 liters of radioactive reprocessing residues were spilled inside containment. [33][34]. In October, another of the site's reprocessing laboratories was closed down after nose-blow tests of eight workers tested positive for trace radioactivity. [35]
• November 3, 2005 – Haddam, Connecticut, USA. The Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company reports that water containing quantities (below safe drinking water limits) of 137Cs, 60Co, 90Sr, and 3H leaked from a spent fuel pond. Independent measurements and review of the incident by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission are due to begin November 7, 2005. [36][37][38]
• March 11, 2006 – at Fleurus, Belgium, an operator working for the company Sterigenics[39], at medical equipment sterilization site, entered the irradation room and remained there for 20 seconds. The room contained a source of 60Co which was not in the pool of water.[40] Three weeks later the worker suffered of symptoms typical of an irradiation (vomit, loss of hair, fatigue). One estimate that he was exposed to a dose of between 4.4 and 4.8 Gy due to a malfunction of the control-command hydraulic system maintaining the radioactive source in the pool. The operator spent over one month in a specialized hospital before going back home. Today he still shows after-effects (fatigue) that should attenuate in several months. To protect workers, the federal nuclear control agency AFCN and private auditors from AVN recommended Sterigenics to install a redundant system of security. It is an accident of level 4 on the INES scale.[41][42][43]
• March 16, 2006 – The State of Illinois sued Exelon Corporation for repeated leaks of tritium into water discharged around its Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station. Exelon states that despite the leaks it has operated within legal limits, but agreed to compensate landowners. [44] [45] The tritium was produced during normal operation and, as fuel reactivity declines, is legally discharged with the borated water into the nearby river. However, some of this water leaked onto land. On March 20, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it had formed a task force to examine tritium leaks [46] , and a “white paper” was issued on June 30. [47]
• May 5, 2006 – An accidental release of 131I gas at a nuclear power plant in Minnesota exposed approximately one hundred plant workers to low-level radiation. Most workers received 10 to 20 millirems (0.1-0.2 mSv), about the same as a dental X-ray. The workers were wearing protective gear at the time, and no radiation leaked outside the plant to the surrounding area. [48]

List of civilian nuclear accidents
1950s

• December 12, 1952 – The first serious nuclear accident occurred at AECL's NRX reactor in Chalk River, Ontario. A reactor shutoff rod failure, combined with several operator errors, led to a major power excursion of more than double the reactor's rated output. The operators purged the reactor's heavy water moderator, and the reaction stopped in under 30 seconds. A cover gas system failure led to hydrogen explosions, which severely damaged the reactor's interior. The fission products of approximately 30 kg of uranium were released through the reactor stack. Irradiated light-water coolant leaked from the damaged coolant circuit into the reactor building; some 4,000 cubic metres were pumped via pipeline to a disposal area to avoid contamination of the Ottawa River. Subsequent monitoring of surrounding water sources revealed no contamination. No immediate fatalities or injuries resulted from the incident; a 1982 followup study of exposed workers showed no long-term health effects. Future U.S. President Jimmy Carter, then a nuclear engineer in the US Navy, was among the cleanup crew.[1][2]
• May 24, 1958 At the NRU reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, a damaged uranium fuel rod caught fire and was torn in two as it was being removed from the core, due to inadequate cooling. The fire was extinguished, but not before releasing a sizeable quantity of radioactive combustion products that contaminated the interior of the reactor building and, to a lesser degree, an area surrounding the laboratory site. Over 600 people were employed in the clean-up.[3][4]
• 1959 – A sodium-cooled reactor suffered a partial core meltdown at Santa Susana Field Laboratory near Simi Valley, California.[5]

[edit] 1960s

• October 5, 1966 – A sodium cooling system malfunction at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe, Michigan, caused a partial core meltdown. The accident was attributed to a piece of zirconium that obstructed a flow-guide in the sodium cooling system. Two of the 105 fuel assemblies melted during the incident, but no contamination was recorded outside the containment vessel. [6]
• May 1967 – Unit 2 at the Chapelcross Magnox nuclear power station in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, suffered a partial meltdown when a fuel rod failed and caught fire after the unit was refuelled. Following the incident, the reactor was shut down for two years for repairs [7] [8].
• January 21, 1969 – A coolant malfunction in an experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. No injuries or fatalities resulted. The cavern was heavily contaminated and was sealed. [9][10]
• May 1, 1969 – A malfunctioning check valve caused a flooding in Ågesta pressurized heavy water nuclear power plant in a suburb outside of Stockholm, Sweden. The flooding of 400 m³ coolant water into the turbine room stopped the turbine and caused short circuits in multiple control functions rendering them inoperable. The reactor was stopped manually. As a result of the accident, approximately 500 liters of heavy water leaked out through faulty check valves.

[edit] 1970s

• February 22, 1977 – The Czechoslovakian nuclear power plant A1 in Jaslovske Bohunice experienced a serious accident during fuel loading. This INES level 4 nuclear accident resulted in damaged fuel integrity, extensive corrosion damage of fuel cladding and release of radioactivity into the plant area. As result the A1 power plant was shut down and is being decommissioned. [11][12]
• March 28, 1979 – Equipment failures and worker mistakes contribute to a loss of coolant and a partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Middletown, Pennsylvania. This is the worst commercial nuclear accident in the United States to date. Site boundary radiation exposure was under 100 millirems (1 mSv) (less than annual exposure due to natural sources), with exposure of 1 millirem (10 µSv) to approximately 2 million people. There were no immediate fatalities, although followup radiological studies predict at most one long-term cancer fatality. [13][14][15]

[edit] 1980s

• March 1981 – More than 100 workers were exposed to doses of up to 155 millirem per day radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan, violating the company's limit of 100 millirems (1 mSv) per day. [16]
• January 25, 1982 – At Rochester Gas & Electric Company's Ginna plant in Rochester, New York, a steam generator pipe broke, spilling radioactive coolant on the plant floor. Small amounts (about 80 Ci or 3 TBq) of radioactive steam escaped into the air.[17][18][19]
• September 23, 1983 – Buenos Aires, Argentina An operator error during a fuel plate reconfiguration led to a criticality accident at the RA-2 facility in an experimental test reactor. An excursion of 3×1017 fissions followed; the operator absorbed 2000 rad (20 Gy) of gamma and 1700 rad (17 Gy) of neutron radiation which killed him two days later. Another 17 people outside of the reactor room absorbed doses ranging from 35 rad (0.35 Gy) to less than 1 rad (0.01 Gy).[20] pg103[21]

• April 26, 1986 – The worst accident in the history of nuclear power occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant located near Kiev, USSR (now part of Ukraine). Fire and explosions resulting from an unauthorized experiment left 31 dead in the immediate aftermath. Radioactive nuclear material was spread over much of Europe. Over 135,000 are evacuated from the areas immediately around Chernobyl (or, in Ukrainian, Chornobyl) and over 800,000 from the areas of fallout in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. About 4,000 mi² (10,000 km²) were taken out of human use for an indefinite time. There are several studies to assess the consequences and amount of casualties, and their findings are subject to controversy. See Chernobyl disaster for more details.

• May 4, 1986, – An experimental 300-megawatt THTR-300 HTGR located in Hamm-Uentrop, Germany released radiation after one of its spherical fuel pebbles became lodged in the pipe used to deliver fuel elements to the reactor. Operator actions to dislodge the obstruction during the event damaged the fuel pebble cladding, releasing radiation detectable up to two kilometers from the reactor. [22]
• December 17, 1987 – Heavy accident at Biblis Nuclear Power Plant, Hessen, Germany.
• November 24, 1989 – Near-meltdown at Greifswald, East Germany [23]
• October 19, 1989, – the Vandellos nuclear power plant near Tarragona, Spain did not result in an external release of radioactivity, nor was there damage to the reactor core or contamination on site. However, the damage to the plant's safety systems due to fire degraded the defence-in-depth significantly. The event is classified as Level 3, based on the defence-in-depth criterion. The plant was closed due to this accident, and now is in dismantling process.

[edit] 1990s

• April 6, 1993 – Tomsk, Russia At the Tomsk-7 Siberian Chemical Enterprise plutonium reprocessing facility, a pressure buildup led to an explosive mechanical failure in a 34 cubic meter stainless steel reaction vessel buried in a concrete bunker under building 201 of the radiochemical works. The vessel contained a mixture of concentrated nitric acid, uranium (8757 kg), plutonium (449 g) along with a mixture of radioactive and organic waste from a prior extraction cycle. The explosion dislodged the concrete lid of the bunker and blew a large hole in the roof of the building, releasing approximately 6 GBq of Pu 239 and 30 TBq of various other radionuclides into the environment. The accident exposed 160 on-site workers and almost two thousand cleanup workers to total doses of up to 50 mSv (the threshold limit for radiation workers is 100 mSv per 5 years)[24]. The contamination plume extended 28 km NE of building 201, 20 km beyond the facility property. The small village of Georgievka (pop. 200) was at the end of the fallout plume, but no fatalities, illnesses or injuries were reported. [25]
• September 30, 1999 – Japan's worst nuclear accident to date takes place at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Japan. The direct cause of the criticality accident was workers putting uranyl nitrate solution containing about 16.6 kg of uranium, which exceeded the critical mass, into a precipitation tank. The tank was not designed to dissolve this type of solution and was not configured to prevent eventual criticality. Three workers were exposed to (neutron)radiation doses in excess of allowable limits (two of these workers died); a further 116 received lesser doses of 1 msV or greater. [26] [27] [28] For more details, see Tokai, Ibaraki and 5 yen coin.

[edit] 2000s

• February 15, 2000 – The Indian Point nuclear power plant's reactor 2 in Buchanan, New York, vented a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator tube failed. No detectable radioactivity was observed offsite. Con Edison was censured by the NRC for not following the procedures for timely notification of government agencies. Subsequently, Con Edison is required by the NRC to replace all four steam generators. [29] NRC Information Notice 2000-09
• February 9, 2002 – Two workers were exposed to a small amount of radiation and suffered minor burns when a fire broke out at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The fire occurred in the basement of reactor #3 during a routine inspection when a spray can was punctured accidentally, igniting a sheet of plastic. [30]
• April 10, 2003 – Radioactivity leak in Paks Nuclear Power Plant, Hungary. Rated INES-3.
• April 19, 2005 – Sellafield, UK. Twenty metric tons of uranium and 160 kilograms of plutonium dissolved in 83,000 liters of nitric acid leaked undetected over several months from a cracked pipe into a stainless steel sump chamber at the Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. The partially processed spent fuel was drained into holding tanks outside the plant. [31].
• 2005 – Dounreay, UK. In September, the site's cementation plant was closed when 266 litres of radioactive reprocessing residues were spilled inside containment. [32][33]. In October, another of the site's reprocessing laboratories was closed down after nose-blow tests of eight workers tested positive for trace radioactivity. [34]
• July 25, 2006 – An electricity fault prompted shut down of the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden. Several problems occurred during the shut-down phase. While Swedish Nuclear Power Inspection authority rated the incident INES 2, Lars-Olov Höglund, expert familiar with design of the plant, stated it was the most serious nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster and it was pure luck that prevented a meltdown.

Moet er nog gesmolten kaas zijn?

En hebt u nu een vergelijkende lijst met ongevallen per geleverde KW/u voor de andere electriciteitsprocuderende methodes?

Durf je niet eens te posten he, propagandistje van mijn voeten.

Ik heb het er moeilijk mee die te vinden,want daar word helemaal geen heisa rond gemaakt. 10 000 liter olie daar de grond in, stuwdammetje ginder dat een paar dorpen verwoest, een stuwdammetje daar dat een methaanproducerend meer veroorzaakt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dam_disasters

Gewoon het meest simpele trukje gebruikt in de nieuwe woordenboeken. Wikipedia.

Om dan op niet "hernieuwbare bronnen" van energiewinning te komen.
Koolmijnen. Wil U uw 100000 ton kolen met of zonder stukjes ontplofte, verpletterde, verzopen Chinees?

Bruinkoolwinning in Duitsland gaat vrij slachtofferloos, maar de milieuimpact van deze systemen is walgelijk.

:thumbsup:
We zitten nu eenmaal in een periode waar het politiek correct is om kernenergie éénzijdig en subjectief te benaderen. Het zal niet de laatste keer zijn dat men ons met verijdelde rampen zal om de oren slingeren.

De gevolgen hiervan zijn dan ook niet te overzien.
De gevolgen van een kernreactorprobleempje zijn echter verwaarloosbaar klein voor de bevolking. :roll:

Voor zover ik zie vroeg ik om rampen, niet om een onnozel copy-pastje met een opsomming van futiliteiten.

Of zal ik even op eenzelfde manier terwerk gaan als wat je hierboven tentoonspreid:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drieklovendam
1,2Miljoen mensen getroffen; dat zijn er meer dan al jouw "rampen" bijeen... Over de slachtoffers die vallen bij de bouw van die dam zeggen we dan nog niets.

Klopt. Welke zouden de gevolgen wel moeten zijn van een kernreactorprobleempje, buiten het voor de hand liggende "gebrek aan energie"? Een kernexplosie?

Alleen zijn ze in Belgie nog een stuk hysterischer, en hebben ze daarbij nog de gewoonte om de waarheid geweld aan te doen.
Maar ernstig. Op welk "schaal van ernst" is het geklasseerd (1 is hierop een futiliteit, 7 is een ramp).

Wat noemt U een reactorprobleempje?
Een glibberige voetmat?
Een Reactor die kapot is?
Een Reactor die ontploft is?

De lijst die onze ecofundi C2C aanhaalt is een lijst van gerapporteerde ongevallen. Deze lijst is veel uitgebreider voor alles wat met kerntechnologie te maken heeft, doordat er vanaf in het begin zware veiligheidsnormen aanhangen.
En maar weinig hebben te maken met kernreactoren zelve. En de lijst met ongevallen met directe impact op de bevolking is nog veel korter.

Lees maar eens goed, en kijk hoeveel " zware" ongevallen met reactoren, met bevolkingsslachtoffers er niet in de USSR gebeurd zijn.

Heeft u een idee wat die rubberen buitenpanelen daar doen en wat hun functie is in verband met de reactor, of is het gewoon blindelings het nieuws volgen.

Ik weet wat die "buitenpanelen" daar doen. Althans, het hangt er van af van welke van de vele elastische materiaalvlakken er gebruikt worden.

Op de reactor zelf. Niks. Die hebben er geen nut, tenzij een anti slipmat voor het personeels die er alleen kunnen komen als de reactor stil ligt.

Maar er zijn een hele hoop trillingsdempers onder verschillende onderdelen. En als die verduren- zoals de meeste "rubbers" dan doen die hun werk minder goed.

Maar die dingen kunnen ze niet zien als ze in de reactorruimte zitten, met een reactor in vol bedrijf. Want dan komt er geen luis binnen.

Of ze hebben een rubbermat probleem gemerkt buiten de reactorruimte, of ze hebben tijdens een onderhoud van de ene reactor een probleem opgemerkt met een trillingsdemper, en vonden de ingenieurs het potentieel gevaarlijk genoeg om een werkende reactor stil te leggen.

Spreekt meer over de veiligheidsbewustheid dan over het potentieel misschien zou kunnen Tjernobilletje.

Ik had ook wel een idee dat het zoiets in dienen aard zou zijn, in kerncentrales staat veiligheid op de eerste plaats, dat men preventief tewerk gaat is niet meer dan normaal vind ik.

Incident = voorval waarbij door menselijke fout of technisch mankement er tijdelijk geen normale bedrijfsvoering is.

accident = voorval waarbij door menselijke fout of technisch mankement gevaren en/of problemen ontstaan zijn tot buiten de centrale,en waarbij de menselijke gezondheid direct geschaad is.

Het is een beproefde techniek van de rabiate tegenstanders van kerntechnologie(van iedere technologie eigenlijk) om die twee verschillende zaken door elkaar heen te smeren en angstwekkende tabellen te publiceren.....


In Zweden staan ze momenteel met hun broek op de knieen,ze moesten er blijkbaar eens aan herinnerd worden dat het uitbaten van een kerncentrale niet geheel gelijk staat aan het foutloos opstoken van een sauna... :roll:

Ik heb dat rampenlijstje ook efkes doorgenomen.
Ik sloeg jaren 50, 60 en 70 heel makkelijk over. Het was toen een vrij nieuwe energiebron en dus moest er geleerd worden.

Eentje van 2006 trok mijn aandacht: een paar honderd mensen werden blootgesteld aan x aantal millirem, te vergelijken met een dental x-ray!!!

Dan ben ik de laatste jaren aan meer blootgesteld. Ik heb namelijk al een paar dental x-rays achter de rug en ook een tweetal 'echte'.

Trouwens, mocht de kernenergie nu wel politiek correct veilig zijn, dan zouden we ineens veel minder olie of zelfs geen olie meer nodig hebben en dan heeft de islam ideologie plots geen inkomsten meer.
(Eurabia, weet je wel. Wij zijn verkocht omwille van de olie)

While Swedish Nuclear Power Inspection authority rated the incident INES 2, Lars-Olov Höglund, expert familiar with design of the plant, stated it was the most serious nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster and it was pure luck that prevented a meltdown.

INES Niveau 2 : INCIDENT


Incidenten met ernstige defecten in de veiligheidsinrichtingen
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Ernstige besmetting binnenin de installatie
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Blootstelling van een werknemer die de wettelijke limieten van jaarlijkse blootstelling overschrijdt

Ik veronderstel dat het hier gaat om punt 1 en dat men daarom uit voorzorg de andere centrale ook stopt tot het heuvel verholpen is, volgens mij is er geen enkel risico voor de omgeving.