Hatunen wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:42:13 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews"
> wrote:
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>>nobody wrote:
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>>>Hatunen wrote:
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>>>>example of tunnel engineering. Chernobyl was stupidly designed by
>>>>a regime that didn't care all that much about it's people, and
>>>>operated by stupid people who didn't follow even the stupid rules
>>>>they had.
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>>>They were actually conducting an experiemnt with the reactor at the time
>>>of the explosion.
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>>snip
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>>Actually I believe it was a safety test or exercise. I guess we should
>>ban all safety tests.
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>
> Your sarcaslm is justified only if it was, in fact, a safety
> test. Was it? it was a test of the reactor, but according to
> http://www.chernobyl.co.uk/ "he test was to check whether, in the
> event of a shutdown enough electrical power to operate the
> emergency equipment and core cooling pumps until the diesel power
> supply came online".
>
> It is clar that some safety procedures were *violated* in
> conducting the test.
>
> ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) *************
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No doubt that it was a badly run safety test but it was a safety test.
Power availability is a part of safety.
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