🚀 go-pugleaf

DEW (caper@bconnex.net) wrote:
: Driving home one recent night I heard a CBC radio program on Three Mile
: Island. I was surprised to learn how out-of-control the plant was. Personnel
: who retrieved test samples and worked to control the reactor spent hours in
: showers scrubbing their skin raw even though they wore state-of-the-art
: protective suits. A meltdown can occur around 5000 degrees. Three Mile
: Island passed 4000 degrees before it was brought down. It was disturbing to
: hear that the same problem had occurred shortly before at another American
: reactor but management types had suppressed information about the occurrence
: and how to avoid it at other sites.

Smithers!! There's only room for one of us in the two seat escape pod! (I
like to put my feet up).

: Rick Cowles, wrote to comp.software.year-2000  in October 97:
: [The folks running the Y2K effort at this particular nuke facility are in a
: stage 5  panic.  They haven't even finished inventorying their software yet.
: Risk assessment?  Ha!  Embedded controls?  Ha! I laugh in your general
: direction.  They don't  have an inkling of a clue (that's the pre-clueless
: stage) as to how to approach the embedded controls issue. They can get
: absolutely no upper level management support or funding.]

Sounds like the boys in sector 7G are hard at work eating doughnuts again
(mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....doughnut).

Quinn










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