Well opposite of how it would usually be used everywhere else. In most installations if the alarm sounds you'd shit your pants. Here if it's not alarming you should still shit your pants
@@jamesluck2969 There's two levels. This is the "confidence" mode. If a criticality event is detected, it will go into full siren alarm mode, then you immediately go into emergency procedures and non-essential personnel run. If the confidence sound stops, then people safely stop what they're doing, non-essential personnel calmly leave the area, and somebody fixes the alarm. This is used elsewhere, e.g. on the railroad where trackside alarms warn workers of an approaching train.
Isn't the criticality alarm counter productive? Nuclear power is not my industry, logistics is and I have read many health and safety studies about the notifications and alarms for heavy equipment moves (beeps, alarms etc) that people become used to them and tune them out if they are constant or the noise does not change. There are trials of white noise that changes volume, pitch and frequency so people do not tune them out.
That is incorrect. Your talking about gamma rays from UV light, not ingesting hot particles of plutonium, americium etc which stick to bone and tissue giving off gamma rays inside your body for the rest of your life damaging the surrounding cells DNA, causing cancer's.
no we can't. Chernobyl was mainly caused by the total lack of any safety culture in the Soviet Union and has nothing to do with modern western NPP. And i know what i am talking about
You are almost right. It is to tell you that the criticality (neutron) detectors are functioning correctly. All plants with fissile material will have them. Looks like they took the tourist route round the flask facility and the storage ponds. Not sure where the last place was. I don't think it was the Vitrification plant. Not sure.
it is contained and no threat to the environment but as much of a nuclear enthusiast as i am the olympic sized swimming pool full of highly irradiated liquids is a death traps to workers which is why cleanup has been postponed for so long besides the huge expense and materials needed to keep humans safe during cleanup
Sellafield is a goldmine for atomic bomb material. I dont like the fact that its in our country and how everyone else dumps their country's waste in it.
the "all working" alarm is so creepy!
it's simply the sound of death
3:54 is a criticality alarm - it sounds unless a criticality is detected. It's a real life version of Homer Simpson's 'Everything is OK alarm'.
Well opposite of how it would usually be used everywhere else.
In most installations if the alarm sounds you'd shit your pants. Here if it's not alarming you should still shit your pants
@@jamesluck2969 If the alarm stops, you know it’s broken. If the default is silent, you don’t know if the alarm is working or not.
@@jamesluck2969 There's two levels. This is the "confidence" mode. If a criticality event is detected, it will go into full siren alarm mode, then you immediately go into emergency procedures and non-essential personnel run. If the confidence sound stops, then people safely stop what they're doing, non-essential personnel calmly leave the area, and somebody fixes the alarm. This is used elsewhere, e.g. on the railroad where trackside alarms warn workers of an approaching train.
The alarm ticks to prove the system is working. If you either hear the criticality alarm or if the ticking noise stops, you’ve got a problem.
Would love a tour round the site
They don't offer tours anymore sadly. I visited THORP and the Vitrification plant back in 2006, it was absolutely amazing, I'll never forget it.
Wow! That brings back memories.
That place scares the shit out of me!
Isn't the criticality alarm counter productive? Nuclear power is not my industry, logistics is and I have read many health and safety studies about the notifications and alarms for heavy equipment moves (beeps, alarms etc) that people become used to them and tune them out if they are constant or the noise does not change. There are trials of white noise that changes volume, pitch and frequency so people do not tune them out.
@becy123 You get about 10x more radiation exposure as an airline pilot, on average.
That is incorrect. Your talking about gamma rays from UV light, not ingesting hot particles of plutonium, americium etc which stick to bone and tissue giving off gamma rays inside your body for the rest of your life damaging the surrounding cells DNA, causing cancer's.
no we can't. Chernobyl was mainly caused by the total lack of any safety culture in the Soviet Union and has nothing to do with modern western NPP. And i know what i am talking about
What's with the red coloured lighting in the pool area 🤔
If I edited the video I'd have to keep the clicks in time.
You are almost right. It is to tell you that the criticality (neutron) detectors are functioning correctly. All plants with fissile material will have them.
Looks like they took the tourist route round the flask facility and the storage ponds. Not sure where the last place was. I don't think it was the Vitrification plant. Not sure.
What's the tic tac for?
3:19 Nuclear waste? :S
TIC, TAC, TIC, TAC
Not sure about mrem's, old unit. Can't remember the derivation.
Yeah... we've seen that at Calder Hall *lol*
I thought it was funny lol
sellafields great init!
A great science endeavour funded when the government was functioning and made big decisions about the future of these abused isles.
Again incorrect. the only use for that material is for more reactor fuel. Its no good for anything else.
THIS IS NOT THORP
They give us their spent fuel to reprocess. When it is done, we send them back their fuel along with the vitrified wastes.
I can't understand why did they built this facility even there is so high levels of radiation even there is no ,God thanks, disaster!
it is contained and no threat to the environment but as much of a nuclear enthusiast as i am the olympic sized swimming pool full of highly irradiated liquids is a death traps to workers which is why cleanup has been postponed for so long besides the huge expense and materials needed to keep humans safe during cleanup
scary!
my dad works in thorp but he wont tell me how much he earns lol but al put it this way, we dont have a shortage of money
Thegreatestyellowhope
Sellafield is a goldmine for atomic bomb material. I dont like the fact that its in our country and how everyone else dumps their country's waste in it.
sellafield is so evil.
Feck that. Not the job for me.
What's the tic tac for?
Basically if it stops, you get your ass out of there ASAP.