Anatomy of a nuclear woops.

[robkelk]

From: Pyrotechie
To: "The Glow in the Dark Brigade"
Subj: RE: Anatonomy of an atomic fuckup.

At 14:01:03 Core feed water boils at an increasing rate. Steem pipe pressures increase within the core. A low water alert from the steam seperator system triggers an automatic SCRAM. As a shutdown is in progress, this is logged as an anomaly in the system and remains active.

What? The system was designed to ignore a SCRAM?

As dad would say, "What in Saint Barbara's name were they thinking?"

Some of these reactors are still running. Somebody needs to do a line-by-line review of the safety shutdown code. Hell, I'll do it if nobody else does - but this should really be a team effort.

- Kohran