Sellafield offline

[Ian Jackson]

We could face serious problems if there were 'issues' from places like Sellafield.

[Graham.]

You wouldn't wand snow on your rods, or in your graphite moderator ;-)

[newshound]

Don't joke; I know of an enriched uranium fuel store (now long gone) which was designed to cope with flooding as a worst case. Someone was smart enough to review it against snowdrifts and I believe they had to revise the rules.

[The Natural Philosopher]

sellafield is an entirely passive site. There cannot be 'issues' when its not actually reprocessing

And its barely a hazardous site at all.

[Graham.]

I noticed the 100kg/200lb discrepancy on two Radio 4 bulletins. 1600 &

1700 respectively I think.

[Graham.]

I believe them now as much as I believed them then:

After all, you can't explain radioactivity to a cow...

...or a sheep.

[geoff]

In message , Graham. writes

Well, you can

just don't expect them to write a thesis on the effects

[harry]

100Kg is just over 200 pounds, so where is the discrepancy? 220.46 lbs to be exact.

[polygonum]

That is not exact.

220.4622622

[The Natural Philosopher]

since 100kg=220lb more or less I fail to see how 100kg is any different from 'over 200lb'

[Richard]

Relief... proves you're normal.

[polygonum]

As I said in an earlier response:

"It is not so much the actuality of what came out by the different routes as the thought processes that made it happen."

The effective difference is utterly negligible. Who knows how accurately the bits of Trigger were weighed in the first place.

[Ian Jackson]

For the purposes of a news item, I can't see how 100kg is even any different from 'or (about) 200lb'. It's not that the additional 20lb has any real importance. It's like saying that something is 1/100th the size of Wales, while in reality, it is actually 1/110th.

[polygonum]

So why did they bother? That was my real point. I agree that the accuracy is entirely unimportant except that if they say 200 lbs it should have been close to 200 lbs, but if they say around/about/nearly/just over 200 lbs that is fine.

What brain processes took place that suggested they change it at all? Why not leave it as 100 kg?

[Mr Pounder]

It is a Godforsaken place in the middle of nowhere.

[bert]

Yup They closed so the workers could get home before the snow got too bad.

[bert]

Which are entirely in your imagination.