Killed in 4 Milliseconds - America's Deadliest Nuclear Accident

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• JE

  @jessmcquade2633 · 8 months ago

  "Lift this heavy rod exactly four inches or everyone in the vicinity dies a gruesome death" is peak 1960s nuclear safety design.  Right up there with "The tip of this screwdriver is the only thing keeping everyone in the room from receiving a lethal dose of radiation instantly".

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• ON

  @One01Zero · 8 months ago

  "My radiation detector must be broken." seems to be a common reaction during nuclear accidents. I would trust the hell out of mine.

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• MI

  @MissMistressNerd · 8 months ago

  Thing I've learned from these incidents is NEVER think your radiation detectors are broken or faulty!

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• LO

  @LordVodka313 · 8 months ago

  "But instead of the intended four inches, he for whatever reason, yanked it twenty inches....." game over

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• AN

  @AndroSpud · 8 months ago

  &quot;Essentially we did a huge amount of research to find all the most dangerous short cuts and points of failure, and we designed the reactor hitting all of them&quot; <br><br>Good work lads

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• NI

  @niftynifty3106 · 8 months ago

  Sounds legitimately like they expected the rod to stick and gave it the extra oomph right off the bat, and it came more freely than intended.

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• DE

  @DeanE-x8r · 8 months ago

  imagine being one of the responders to first see legg pinned to the ceiling, shock and disbelief

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• IA

  @ianmeredith7969 · 8 months ago

  Gotta say, pulling think rod up 20&quot; not 4&quot; sounds wholly explicable if they were sticking. Can you imagine it sticking so you are yanking it harder and harder again, it suddenly frees up... Woosh, 20&quot; sounds an entirely predictable result.

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• TA

  @Tac0_DogTTV · 8 months ago

  I wonder if the previous 2 false alarms weren&apos;t false alarms

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• KL

  @klaasklapsigaar1081 · 8 months ago

  &quot;4 milliseconds? I can beat that.&quot; Stockton Rush

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• JO

  @JoshJos-Shwa · 8 months ago

  Whoever designed this really did a poor job or were designing it to fail. I mean, &nbsp;if you pull something 16 inches too far and it explodes within 4ms that sounds more like a bomb to me than a functioning power reactor.

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• TW

  @TwinFlyDSW · 8 months ago

  The setup should have made it physically impossible to lift the rod beyond 4 inches.

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