Amount of Nuclear Material under IAEA Safeguards Continues to Increase: Safeguards Statement 2018

Amount of Nuclear Material under IAEA Safeguards Continues to Increase: Safeguards Statement 2018

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WTF Facts : Living next to nuclear plant gives less radiation than eating a bag of chips for a year

WTF Facts : funny, interesting

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3 persons die of asphyxiation

As per reports, 3 persons died after nitrogen gas leak at a reactor construction site. Government closed two more sites under construction following this incident.

I feel that this reaction is not warranted, in this case. Persons overcome by inert gases is well known. Closure of the site where deaths took place is reasonable to isolate as well as enable investigation.

One need not be afraid that all accidents at a nuclear site involve nuclear material. If one thinks that all nuclear sites where nitrogen is used should be closed, then all industrial facilities (nuclear and others) handling nitrogen should be closed, which is not sensible.


http://rt.com/news/217967-korea-nuclear-deadly-leak/

Nuclear emergency in Japan

The earthquake on 11.03.2011 followed with tsunami and nuclear emergency at Fukushima reminded me of Murphy's law. There was power outage. The pumps for cooling the reactors could not be operated by DG sets. The engineers of the nuclear plant are trying hard with available limited resources. Already there are reports of increase in radiation levels.

What lessons we can learn from this incident in a chemical plant?