Dumb me. I’m going wow Cruise ships back then had those sort of sensors.powerboatr wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 7:45 pmBINGOThe Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 6:12 pmI've seen both the docudrama and the documentary. The Chernobyl disaster was a case of cascading incompetence—beginning with the design, and ending with the near lunatic fecklessness of management under a communist system…….all in the name of being willing to kill thousands as the price of keeping the party from looking bad. But, from the outset, it was an inferior design that should have never been approved for construction.philip964 wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 4:34 pm Chernobyl melt down was during a safety test to see if they could safely shut down the plant using the inertia of the rotating turbine. They couldn't. If you haven't seen the HBO docudrama, I would recommend it.
They make these relatively small generators that are used only during peak demand. Apparently they are owned by investors waiting for peak demand, so they can get top dollar for the electricity. One investor here in town reported that he made $400,000 just Friday morning after the crisis was over but the PUC still kept the rate at $9 a Kwh.
did you watch the show on how they now finally have it encased in a HUGE lead lined building? the entire complex.
i was on long cruise in the med when it happened, we had NBC (nuke bio chemical) alarms start going off all over the weather decks, we had ZERO idea what was going on. Our Captian was smart and immediately went into a protective mode washing ship down and getting us out of the ZONE. no body could figure out what the heck happened, all sensors should not go bad at once
it was over a week later that we finally found out what had happened , that was through official message traffic and the news we got still had nothing on the scale or size of cloud or danger.
I read the Chernobyl book. I have Iodine tablets.