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Kernkraftwerke / nuclear power plants

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Bei einer Kontrolle im Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt wurde am 24. Juni 2014 festgestellt, dass die Halterungen für zwei Feuerlöscher mittels Bohrungen am Primärcontainment befestigt waren. – Bohrlöcher im Primärcontainment des Kernkraftwerks Leibstadt

Bohrlöcher im Primärcontainment des Kernkraftwerks Leibstadt (https://www.ensi.ch)

Or, as @rysiek put it:

@rysiek (https://mastodon.technology)

That time when someone decided that it is a good idea to install a fire extinguisher by way of drilling holes for screws in (checks notes) primary containment building of an active nuclear reactor.

Uuugh! I grew up in sight of the Leibstadt plume. 😬

Tritium is very dangerous. It gets inside you easily. It exchanges with normal hydrogen, sometimes it becomes organically (covalently) bound. It causes genetic damage at tiny conventional doses... I spent three years in the late 1990s looking at cancer and child leukemia near the Irish Sea supported by the Irish State. Tritium is measured in surface water – Is the Release of Radioactive Contaminated Water From the Fukushima Nuclear Site to the Sea Acceptable? Is It Safe?

Is the Release of Radioactive Contaminated Water From the Fukushima Nuclear Site to the Sea Acceptable? Is It Safe? (https://www.counterpunch.org)

By Chris Busby, for Counterpunch

Chinese statistics show that 13 nuclear power plants in China each released more radioactive tritium into the ocean in 2021 than the planned amount to be released from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in one year. – 13 China plants released more tritium in 2021 than Fukushima annual total plan

13 China plants released more tritium in 2021 than Fukushima annual total plan (https://www3.nhk.or.jp)