TANKS HOLD LIQUID WASTE
Power plant liquid wastes are collected in tanks for storage prior to discharge into a specially designed servicing vessel in port. The liquid waste collection tanks are monitored. Gaseous wastes will normally be disposed of at sea through the radio mast, which contains two detectors for monitoring purposes. They are an air-particle monitor and a radio-gas monitor, and operate at all times so that gas is vented to the atmosphere. If gaseous radioactivity should rise above specified limits, the gas will be diluted to below the limit before being discharged to atmosphere.
The above monitor stations are the principal ones involved in reactor system operation. The monitors operate through a system of separate channels, with each channel responsible for a pre-selected range of activity. All detectors relay their readings to the main panel in the control room, where automatic recording and visual observation instruments are located.
Surrounded by steel, wood, concrete, the N.S. SAVANNAH reactor is safe against any credible accident.
STABILIZING BRACKET PORT AND STARBOARD POLYETHYLENE “C” DECK STEEL & REDWOOD COLLISION MAT WOOD PAD “D” DECK CONCRETE WATERTIGHT BULKHEAD REACTOR COMPARTMENT STIFFENING RINGS LEAD CONTAINMENT VESSEL COMPARTMENT BULKHEAD CONCRETE INNER BOTTOM FOUNDATIONS FORWARD
Portable monitoring equipment, samplers, and other health physics survey equipment are provided for access, survey, and maintenance monitoring.