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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holy f#ck  :shock:

Terrifying.[/quote]

Watching ep1 right now and it is so much more upsetting than I thought it would be. I’m screaming at the characters to just leave, stopping touching things, don’t open doors, etc. DH and DD think I’ve lost my mind. [/quote]Yes, it's scary that the nuclear technology is out of control [i]and[/i] scary that the government encouraged such a level of denial that some of the people are pretending everything's fine.[/quote]

You mean old nuclear technology [/quote]

or Communist nuclear technology built without a containment structure and a no nuclear safety culture or ability to question direction.[/quote]

Communist nuclear technology?
I did not know there was such a thing.
One is philosophy, other science

Tell me more. Did Karl Marx mention that in his writings[/quote]"The nuclear technology" at Chernobyl was out of control.  Yes, it wasn't as safe as other reactors.  Tell that to the Japanese who had nice modern nuclear reactors at Fukushima [i]where the nuclear technology was ALSO out of control [/i] because no one had anticipated the damage a tsunami could do.

And this is part of the overall problem.  People keep expecting that things could never happen and then they do.   A valve failed to close on the Davis-Besse nuclear reactor back in the 70s and the safety systems kicked in pouring water on the core.  The operator turned off the safety systems while the water poured OUT of the containment vessel.  Luckily the operator figured out what he did wrong in about 20 minutes and turned the safety system back on.  An NRC inspector and a Babcock & Wilcox engineer realized that operators needed to be retrained.  The B & W engineer told his company and the company did nothing.  The NRC inspector told his superiors and they did nothing.  He finally made an appointment with an NRC commissioner (they had a policy where you could go straight to the top) to urge him to get operators retrained.  The appointment was scheduled for after the day the valve on the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (a Babcock and Wilcox plant) failed to close.  The operator turns off the safety system but doesn't realize until over an hour later his mistake. By that time it was too late.  The core was partially uncovered.

Okay, where have we recently heard about the issue of retraining when there's an incident? Boeing, right? There's an accident and people see that there's a technical problem requiring retraining but certain forces don't want to listen - whether out of self interest, greed, or merely the belief that it's not possible for something to go wrong.  This is normal human behavior.  And it's something we need to take into account with technology.

And yes the vast majority of nuclear plants have functioned well enough without major incidents.  But don't watch this show on Chernobyl and blithely assume that all the problems with nuclear power have been solved.  Like I said, tell that to the Japanese![/quote]

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