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[Steve Hurt]

Well, did he know what they all did? I assume you asked.

I did not ask him to rattle them all off, but it was quite clear that he could.
You could not ask for a smarter, more well prepared person to be in charge in that room.

[Steve Hurt]

That is some user interface design.

The plant went on line in 1985.
Everything had to be approved before it was built so 90% of the technology is from the 70's

[Scott Raymond]

The plant went on line in 1985.
Everything had to be approved before it was built so 90% of the technology is from the 70's

I'd still like one for my basement....   

Seriously, I have a cousin in Richland WA that does/did recurrent training for plant operators and pre 911 could of actually run me through a drill in the simulator.  I never got out there and after 911 security got a lot tighter.  I'm surprised you can even get close to a control room now!

Scott

[Royce Covington]

I'd still like one for my basement....   

Seriously, I have a cousin in Richland WA that does/did recurrent training for plant operators and pre 911 could of actually run me through a drill in the simulator.  I never got out there and after 911 security got a lot tighter.  I'm surprised you can even get close to a control room now!

Scott

I grew-up (or was raised rather) near a hydroelectric dam and as teens, a group of friends would gain access and run around all night inside the structure.  one of the group worked with the visitor center by day and therefore had the necessary keys, keycard, etc. 

similarly, after 9/11, fences, gates, cameras and guards went into place and public access was non-existent.

I thought that under "homeland security" the access to such facilities as the above was simply not allowed?

R~

[drew gandy]

Here's a closer look!

Insert Man Rod?

[Steve Hurt]

It's the manual control in insert or retract the radioactive control rods into the nuclear reactor's core.


(but yes, that label has caused about 3.14159 bazillion jokes!)

[Mike McDonald]

Steve
I noticed there was a switch so the man could go on a trip.
Was the trip to China?

[Brad Weber]

One of my projects years ago was designing and installing an system for recording training exercises in a nuke plant control room.  There is a lot of machine and mechanical equipment noise in the room, the mics had to be out of the way and people were facing all different directions, but they wanted to hear everything said in the recording.  This was in the days before DSP systems or computer based, real time noise cancellation so careful mic selection and placement along with an IRP System 41 rack full of parametric filter cards was what we came up with.  The resulting signal sounded like crap, but was intelligible.

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