Orwellian phrase of the day: Now that it's cracked it's a "shield building" not "containment",

[kristopher]

After all the talk of containment buildings because of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, we now have the NRC and the nuclear industry engaging in NewSpeak because their facade of a foolproof system is, quite literally, showing cracks.

Are you fooled?


Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant

Shallow Dome Containments For Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR)

http://www.psctendon.com/nuclear/containmentdesign.html


From one local paper:

Additional hairline cracks were discovered at the shield building of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio, reactor owner FirstEnergy said Monday. But both the company and a nuclear regulatory agency official said there is no immediate safety concern....

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/3766136


And don't you love this? In another local paper they make it sound like it is decorative. Note the in the graphic above what "architectural design elements" "protrude" beyond the main walls.

More cracks were found in architectural design components on the concrete "shield building" at the Davis- Besse Nuclear power station.

Jennifer Young, spokeswoman with First Energy, said hairline cracks were found in 15 out of the 16 design components of the building.

The architectural elements protrude 18 inches beyond the main wills of the 2 1/2 foot thick reinforced concrete...

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/carroll-twp/news/2011/nov/01/more-cracks-found-davis-besse-nuclear-power-station


And just in case you are in doubt about the source:

There Are No Cracks in Davis-Besse’s Containment
Posted by Moderator on October 24, 2011

The NRC was informed by FirstEnergy on October 10 that it had identified what looked like a crack in the concrete shield building of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio. The plant had been shut down and workers were starting to cut a hole in the side of the building in order to move and replace the reactor head when they found the crack. The shield building is made of about three feet of concrete reinforced with two to three-inch steel rods.

It’s important to emphasize that the shield building at Davis-Besse is not the reactor containment vessel. That vessel is made of one-inch thick welded steel and sits inside of the shield building separated by about four and a half feet of hollow space. The shield building’s primary function is to protect the containment building against external hazards. The steel vessel is designed to keep the radiation inside the reactor from reaching the environment.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commision link has an apostrophe and won't post here properly. You can cut and paste these two parts in the address bar:
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2011/10/24
/there-are-no-cracks-in-davis-besse's-containment/

Just who is it "important to emphasize" this verbal sleight of hand to?

[truedelphi]

1. Oh, for sure, it is all about the spin.

I was amazed to find word-age in a Time magazine over the past summer, that told the public that "We simply don't have any data on the effects of large scale radiation like the type the Japanese are now dealing with..."

Really?

REALLY?!?

Where did all the data go from the researchers that went over to Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the two nuclear bombs hit that populace? Where did all the data go regarding the people in small towns across Nevada and Utah that were heavily irradiated from years of our above-ground atomic testing?

A friend who still has most of his family in Japan says their media is trying to tell people that if they hold positive thoughts about the situation, then they won't be affected by irradiated food, water and air?

[kristopher]

5. +1

[truedelphi]

2. Oh one other thing - when Three Mile Island occurred

The public was told 24/7 that there had been no explosions inside the containment unit.

But as someone who got ahold of Senator Percy's office and had them send me every report and piece of paper that Congress had on that catastrophe, there actually had been three separate explosions. We in the USA are very lucky that the containment dome had been built to spec - and not by some contractor who lined his pockets with the money for the project, using less concrete than required. If that project hadn't been built to spec, it would have gone into China Syndrome.

[Gregorian]

3. Recc'ing back up.

Pro nuke crowd is lurking.

[kristopher]

4. Thanks.

Maybe they'll learn something.

[kristopher]

6. Good video explaining location of cracks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BlIiMbCDSGc