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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 24155" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>Re: Attempting to bring clarity to the nuclear problems facing Japan</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hey Jack, sorry I missed this. I think a global oversight of reactors would be a hard task, as the nuclear power generating nations can't even all cooperate on the GEN IV reactor design collaboration. But, in the post cold war era, I think a renewed level of cooperation between the rosatom, NRC, etc. should be expected, and is desireable.</p><p></p><p>I don't favor purely private facilities, or purely government, when you have only one body solely responsible, the potential for the culture to become insular and miss important things is too great. I feel this is pull of the gravity of human nature that lies outside of the public private boundary lines.</p><p></p><p>Government regulated private facilities, what we have currently in the US, seems to me the best of the examples above. Unlike the minerals division in the Gulf oil spill, the NRC has real "boot on the neck" power over the utilities and their plant operations. They can quickly make your life miserable as a nuclear utility, and cost you an amazing amount of money. The NRC is in your plant, literally, daily to keep an eye on you.</p><p></p><p>Now I have friends that work for the NRC, and it can be a nightmare to get anything done inside the organization. They have spent the last decade trying to simplify the organizational structure, and my friends indicate they have made some progress. They grow ever better at predicting potential problems as engineering science progresses.</p><p></p><p>The nuclear power industry in the US established the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), which is based in here Atlanta. INPO is the industry's private NRC clone that tries to pre-emptively out-inspect the NRC. INPO, and the NRC's big stick that drove its founding, both came out of TMI. Unfortunately that was a reactionary measure, but the result certainly has been good for the US nuclear industry.</p><p></p><p>Out of the Japanese situation, I think it is likely that all GE BWR Mark 1 reactors will no longer qualify for license renewals, and the utilities that own them should expect to send them all towards mothballs. I also think that Westinghouse will have to do even more justification of the AP1000 before the design receives its design license.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 24155, member: 430"] Re: Attempting to bring clarity to the nuclear problems facing Japan Hey Jack, sorry I missed this. I think a global oversight of reactors would be a hard task, as the nuclear power generating nations can't even all cooperate on the GEN IV reactor design collaboration. But, in the post cold war era, I think a renewed level of cooperation between the rosatom, NRC, etc. should be expected, and is desireable. I don't favor purely private facilities, or purely government, when you have only one body solely responsible, the potential for the culture to become insular and miss important things is too great. I feel this is pull of the gravity of human nature that lies outside of the public private boundary lines. Government regulated private facilities, what we have currently in the US, seems to me the best of the examples above. Unlike the minerals division in the Gulf oil spill, the NRC has real "boot on the neck" power over the utilities and their plant operations. They can quickly make your life miserable as a nuclear utility, and cost you an amazing amount of money. The NRC is in your plant, literally, daily to keep an eye on you. Now I have friends that work for the NRC, and it can be a nightmare to get anything done inside the organization. They have spent the last decade trying to simplify the organizational structure, and my friends indicate they have made some progress. They grow ever better at predicting potential problems as engineering science progresses. The nuclear power industry in the US established the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), which is based in here Atlanta. INPO is the industry's private NRC clone that tries to pre-emptively out-inspect the NRC. INPO, and the NRC's big stick that drove its founding, both came out of TMI. Unfortunately that was a reactionary measure, but the result certainly has been good for the US nuclear industry. Out of the Japanese situation, I think it is likely that all GE BWR Mark 1 reactors will no longer qualify for license renewals, and the utilities that own them should expect to send them all towards mothballs. I also think that Westinghouse will have to do even more justification of the AP1000 before the design receives its design license. [/QUOTE]
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