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Jeopardy Tackles Nuclear Energy

One of my colleagues at NEI, Steve Kerekes, just got off the phone with the folks from the television gameshow Jeopardy. They told him that next Tuesday's show, airing January 17, will include a first-round category on nuclear power plants. Check your local listings for time and station in your area.

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Anonymous said…
I'll try "Davis-Besse" for the current limit on Price Anderson

OK...
How close did the Davis-Besse nuclear power station come to blowing its reactor vessel head on the shores of Lake Erie just twenty miles from Toledo, Ohio?

Dum-de-dum-dum, dum-de-dum,
Dum-de-dum-de-dum-deeee-dum-dum.

Times up.

As close as two months of continued ongoing corrosion which had already eaten a cavity 6 3/4 inches deep into the carbon steel base metal exposing the balloning and cracking stainless steel inner liner.

Yes... (Applause)

I'll try Davis-Besse again and jeopardize surpassing Price Anderson...

OK...What reactor containment component was found to be so undersized at Davis-Besse, as at other pressurized water reactors, that the debris field created by this screaming jet stream from ruptured pressure vessel would have clogged it and prevented the recycling of the emergency core cooling system?

Dum-de-dum-dum...

I got... the containment sump screen...

Yes!!!! (Applause)

Paul, NIRS
Anonymous said…
Hey dude, you lose every time. You forgot to give your answers in the form of a question. About what I expected from NIRS.
Anonymous said…
OK...

What fraction of the September 11th attack force does the NRC's security cost curtailing DBT cover under its adversary characteristics?

Answer: TIME Magazine June 20, 2005.
Anonymous said…
Player 1:
"I'll take Nuclear Power Plants for $1,000 Alex"

Alex:
"This anti-nuclear organization often distorts the truth of nuclear power with poor information and bad scare tactics."

Player 1, 2, and 3 all buzz in with Player 1 just beating the other two.

Player 1:
"What is the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS)?"

Alex:
"Correct for a thousand."
David Bradish said…
Paul,

You are absolutely right about Davis Besse. For the industry it wasn't a great reflection on the benefits of nuclear power.

However, you need to recognize that Davis Besse isn't the only nuclear reactor in the U.S. and the world. There are 103 operating reactors in the U.S. and the only instances of which nuclear power posed a possible threat to the public were TMI and Davis Besse. And there isn't any evidence of the public being harmed in both cases. It should be noted that those reactors make up only 1% of the nuclear industry.

So to say that nuclear power is unsafe, unreliable and a threat to the public, you have to have more than TMI and Davis Besse which there aren't in the U.S.

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