A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)
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Re: A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)
#2Some people say suicide is never justified, but I don't believe people who say such things comprehend the horrors of acute radiation poisoning.
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#3So I guess it turns out that Homer Simpson was more realistic than we thought... all the way through to only avoiding nuclear accidents through sheer luck.
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#5Putting a profit motive anywhere near anything that is safety critical is almost never a good idea.
Naval Nuclear Power has it's issues, yet it is so safe that we have almost no incidents. That's because things like this don't happen there due to the culture of safety.
That said, this is about production rather than operation, but the overall communities are relatively small and aligned.
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#6The photo didn't shut things down. A culture of disregard for safety over years, and a failure by management to take the issue seriously, shut down the lab.
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#7They keep saying that profit seeking was the issue, but taking selfies with plutonium, running a lab for 4 years that produces nothing, and not having any employees that don't understand the most basics of nuclear physics does not sound like profit seeking. It sounds like someone just has way too much money and runs a nuclear weapons lab as vanity project.
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#8brought to you by the guys who learned nothing from a string of criticality accidents. I'm not surprised.
Re: A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)
#9They keep saying that profit seeking was the issue, but taking selfies with plutonium, running a lab for 4 years that produces nothing, and not having any employees that don't understand the most basics of nuclear physics does not sound like profit seeking. It sounds like someone just has way too much money and runs a nuclear weapons lab as vanity project.
If you continued to read the article, you'd see that there was a culture of throwing caution to the wind to increase productivity at not only that lab, but other nuclear facilities around the world.
Hell, the article even went on to say that workers at the facility even came up with a euphemism for orders that ignored basic safety protocols, they called them "Bubba said" orders.
And the article said that after those criticality events, those in charge of the facility and safety of personnel just had people keep working instead of evacuating.
Re: A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (2017)
#10I would have though the decision tree for placement of concentrated plutonium was firmly established after the demon core incidents, set roughly in stone as the following:
Should I bring high purity plutonium samples together?
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Do you want to die a horrible radiated death taught in textbooks for decades?
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No. Yes
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Then don’t you’re fired.