[OT] Interesting trip

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:49 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> >
> >http://www.myownlittleserver.us/chernobyl/chapter1.html
> 
> Speaking of Chernobyl, there's a fascinating discussion of the Chernobyl in
> Robert Williscroft's recent book ``The Chicken Little Agenda: Debunking
> ``Expert's'' Lies''.  Williscroft is a scientist who spent 23 years as an
> atmospheric scientist at NOAA after serving as an officer on U.S. nuclear
> submarines where he got a good education in the care and maintenance of
> nuclear reactors.
> 
> He says that the Chernobyl failure occurred when the people running the
> site were trying to find a way to perform maintenance without having to
> shut the reactor down entirely.  Their first attempts failed because the
> automatic safety features shut things down so they disabled five safety
> systems in order to make the tests.

That sounds like burning a kernel. <g> Ric

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