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Originally Posted by red-beard
The information I gleaned from some sources point to intentional sabotage at Idaho falls. Something about a love triangle...
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aspects of SL-1 is still classified to this day but I did ride with an engineer that was a first responder to the site that did give some hear say to that fact as one of the guys was still alive when they got to him, I had the autopsy reports for the 3 casualties from the accident but someone over the years decided they wanted them more than I did but they weren't pretty. The reactor building for Chernobyl was not real substanial because of the design of the reactor the primary containment was the vessel lid which weighed 100s of tons and the associated piping was sealed in its own containment structures when the reactor had its steam explosion it blew the bottom and the top off the vessel breaching primary containment. Wayne the problem with Chernobyl was bosses pushing the men that operated the reactor to perform a test when the prereqs weren't met and that was the result as for TMI it was simple the senior reactor operator and shift manager didn't believe the indications they saw and assumed it was something else indicating water level high when in fact it was going low its very complicated and the changes implemented since then mean that cannot happen again.
Now IROC I know you guys take radiation serious I am just ribbing you I have about 800 mrem for exposure this year but I also worked 6 outages this year I have not worked with those casks we typically use high level HIC's and I am not sure what the official designation is for the dry casks they use for the fuel as I haven't done any of that but I still am totally fascinated when I see the Cherenkov radiation (blue glow) even after 30 years.