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Technical Specifications
Nuclear power plants are required to comply with the conditions of their NRC-issued license at all times. A large part of this is contained in what are called technical specifications, also known as Tech Specs. The link to all currently approved Tech Specs is below. https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/techspecs/current-approved-sts.html Tech specs provide a box that you have to…
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TMI
The Three Mile Island accident is regarded as the worst civilian nuclear event in US history. Due to a combination of equipment failure and operator error, a reactor core that had only been online for 3 months was destroyed, resulting in a radiation release and widespread panic. TMI Unit 2 began commercial operation on Dec…
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Nuclear Power 101
When Einstein discovered that a small amount of mass can be converted into enormous amounts of energy, he set the stage for nuclear power. The first reactor was built under the squash courts at the University of Chicago by Enrico Fermi. It went critical on December 2, 1942. By Melvin A. Miller of the Argonne…
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Why, in the year 2023, would I start a blog?
Once upon a time, I had a decent following on the site formerly known as Twitter. Since Elon decided to turn it into an alt-right chat room, I left that hellhole and migrated to BlueSky. BlueSky has a few advantages over Twitter, the biggest being the lack of neo-Nazis. It does not, however, thread long…
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