02-22-2003, 02:22 AM
I didn't find the TMI one to be very useful (also having studied it before in my Nuclear Science class).
It missed which was, in my opinion, the worst/most dangerous operator failure in US nuclear history. A day or two into the emergency, they discovered the hydrogen bubble forming at the top of the reactor. When studying this bubble, one person came to the conclusion that it was a large bubble and, in fact, threatened to 'explode' (don't remember if that's the term they used). Of course, not explode in a nuke sense, but enough for the reactor to open up and release plenty of radiation. For the next day, everyone was frantically working to discover if this was true, with the discussion splitting pretty evenly.
Obviously, TMI did not have such a problem. If it did, I most likely wouldn't be living here right now. The problem? That engineer, who's job was to protect people from Nuclear emergencies (he was one of the government officials IIRC), used a stupid formula wrong. The people working that emergency almost acted on information concocted by the fact that someone couldn't get his math straight. And no one figured out why there were two divergent theories for a whole day! Obviously all humans make mistakes, but that just seems to me to have been a pure 'Yes man' problem to me.
It missed which was, in my opinion, the worst/most dangerous operator failure in US nuclear history. A day or two into the emergency, they discovered the hydrogen bubble forming at the top of the reactor. When studying this bubble, one person came to the conclusion that it was a large bubble and, in fact, threatened to 'explode' (don't remember if that's the term they used). Of course, not explode in a nuke sense, but enough for the reactor to open up and release plenty of radiation. For the next day, everyone was frantically working to discover if this was true, with the discussion splitting pretty evenly.
Obviously, TMI did not have such a problem. If it did, I most likely wouldn't be living here right now. The problem? That engineer, who's job was to protect people from Nuclear emergencies (he was one of the government officials IIRC), used a stupid formula wrong. The people working that emergency almost acted on information concocted by the fact that someone couldn't get his math straight. And no one figured out why there were two divergent theories for a whole day! Obviously all humans make mistakes, but that just seems to me to have been a pure 'Yes man' problem to me.
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