Just at our site. But we're a 3 unit plant. I know the other old Duke plants had their own simulators, I'm assuming all the Progress plants did too since they are all different.
Lmao why’d they do viktor kibenok wrong like that somewhere in between a chick using ridiculous Instagram filters and the Leprechaun Sketch.
They're basically identical. Units 1 and 2 share some systems like service water and spent fuel because Unit 3 was added after they were designed, but otherwise they are the same. This was just to get enough simulator work for the operators.
It’s honestly a miracle that they were able to get WB2 online. That reactor was partially built then used for parts (without documentation) for years. It’s amazing that they were able to put it all back together.
Yep we scavenged from it and Bellefonte for years. It was mainly small stuff though like valves and such. The guts were all there and most of the systems were maintained in layup with nitrogen blankets.
Saw this on the subreddit for the show: That’s a chunk of uranium in a cloud chamber. You can see the trails that the particles leave as it decays. Can only imagine what enriched uranium would look like.
Before TMI all the operators trained a generic simulator that may or may not be a similar layout as your respective plant. You went there for 2 weeks and bam we’re licensed to run a reactor back in the day. The tmi operators didn’t believe the indication o the tail pipe temperatures due to entropy/enthalpy of steam relationships and stopped HPI injection when they shouldn’t have. But it all started with water in the instrument air system that caused air operated valves in their condensate polishers to fail closed, compounded with a emergency feed water pump having a discharge isolation valve out of position (closed) that didn’t allow heat to be removed from the core. This event established each plant have their own simulator, a configuration control program and a bunch of other shit that most normal people wouldn’t know about.
Similar event happened at my plant several months before TMI. The operators caught the issue before anything happened. Part of the reason that drove Bill Lee to start INPO and get OE shared through the industry.
Wooooow. Why? Were you at ANO? I have a few buddies who worked there and they said the people were great but the plants were built pretty poorly.
I mean, they shoved a CE plant into, b&w buildings (turbine/aux/reactor). There’s some Places that are crappy but you can easily see where they cut back to save on costs in the secondary side of the plants. Unit 2 is full of those shit ass Weston hydraulic valves that always break.
Yeah. He told me the vibration is off the charts. I was a snubber engineer in a previous life and every outage was a nightmare for him. He’d end up having to pull more and more sample expansions due to failures—most due to the high vibrations.
This is a cool thread. In the first episode of the podcast, they said they had people who lived in Soviet era Russia as consultants to get everything right. Cool that they were able to pull it off.
Listened to all 3 episodes of the podcast this week and you guys were right. It’s really good and adds a good bit of perspective
Started this morning before we head out for Memorial Day festivities. TIL that Brazil Nuts are the most naturally occurring radioactive food. Neat.
In an episode of House they had a CIA agent they thought had radiation poisoning. The real cause was he ate a ton of Brazil Nuts.
I fast forwarded that, wasnt really necessary imo. I get that they want to show the horror, and I'm a fan of the "show don't tell", but they could've lingered on some dialogue about how someone hunts dogs and it would've been fine.
Based on reactions here, not sure I want to watch this episode. Fuck that's rough. Reading it is hard enough, not sure I need to see this imagery.
Based on the podcast, they apparently filmed, but ultimately cut, an even more horrific scene involving getting rid of animals.
One thing Ive gathered from the podcast and reading other stuff is they spent a lot of time having thoughtful discussions on how much they needed to show to tell the story and give it the proper heft, and how much was too much to where it felt like gratuitous gore.
It’s insane that all this actually happened and real people actually went through it. “Ok Ivan you’ve got 90 seconds on top of a nuclear reactor to shovel as much radioactive waste as possible over the side and into the exposed core. Here’s some makeshift body armor made of rubber and some scavenged lead.”
I havent watched the episode yet, but I can gather what is happening from the replies. I knocked out the book this weekend. In the book, they said the radiation was so strong, the workers on the roof and the guys trying to set up the concrete said they felt the sensation of particles 'splashing' on their eyeballs. Craziness.
Actual footage of some liquidators on the roof clearing away debris: Just walking right over chunks of graphite
Watched ep 2 last night This shit is like breaking bad on breaking bad meth on the intensity scale. It’s unreal
Except it is, apparently as closely as possible, a true story. Absolutely blowing my mind how little I knew about what actually happened. I’m honestly a little ashamed of myself.
So much good info on these. I know he’s the writer/creator but it’s incredible how much that guy knows about what went down.
That was a rough episode. That kid entered so pure and at the end of the episode he was broken. The podcast spoke on the deleted scene and i'm thankful they didn't include it. Brutal. Amazing television... Sad its all over next monday