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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Roland A. Jalbert, Sandra J. Brereton, Douglas F. Holland
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 1223-1227
Environment and Safety | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24897
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To study the problem of outgassing of contaminated room surfaces following a significant tritium (T) room release, painted metal strips were exposed to tritium (T2 or HTO)* and the outgassing rates measured. This was followed by exposures in a 1-m3 chamber, whose walls were coated with the material to be studied. The results show that the differences in the contamination of, and subsequent outgassing by, several epoxy and latex paints may be significant. The greatest differences, however, were the much higher contamination following exposure to HTO compared to T2, and the lower contamination of exposed bare aluminum foil compared to painted surfaces, for both HTO and T2.
