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To: heraclitus who wrote (10184)	2/16/2000 1:07:00 PM
From: clochard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42523

I saw black helicopters all over the place dropping little white balls which glowed in the dark after a while...

To: heraclitus who wrote (10184)	2/16/2000 1:39:00 PM
From: IceShark	Respond to of 42523

Yea, it sounded like the secondary to me, also. But with my somewhat limited experience with the nukes, I don't want to go displaying my ignorance too much. -g- However, I do know that the secondaries are radioactive, although typically not too bad, as I have dealt with the secondary systems. The water (and resulting steam) running through the secondary would be even more minimal though. The salts, etc., that build up on the tube walls pick up a bit after awhile, which is one of the reasons there is such a big deal de-ionizing and de-oxing the feed water. And this pickup ends up costing the utilities money because they have to start cutting down employee exposure to maintain safe rad levels. There is also a company, I forget its name, that is making a fortune purging the built up accumulation on the tube walls. The utilities love it since they can go back up the scale on time exposure for the workers, etc. That whole water system has made a few people rich as being in on the ground floor of inut IPOs. -g-