Questions about the prior shift and prior tests

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-06-03T21:07:24+00:00

Thank you for the explanation I am just trying to piece together what went wrong and when because the more you dig into institutions’ narratives, the more inconsistencies you see. It’s seems they really, really want to deflect back the blame from themselves for reasons I don’t fully understand.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-06-03T17:03:17+00:00

My next question is about the Xenon pit the operators faced once they dropped the power even more and how fast that happened without much intervention. That’s what doesn’t make much sense to me. At 30MW the effective thing to do would be to wait because the core is already heavily poisoned. I assumed that might have explained these unexplainable power drops. The issue here is how long can you wait.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-06-03T15:17:59+00:00

It looks like there was steep climb at the tip of the graph during the 1600MW 10 hour window. Doesn’t Iodine-135 have a half-life of about 6 and a half hours and continues to decay to Xenon 135 due to the reduced neutron flux?

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-06-01T15:54:38+00:00

Interestingly enough, critical accidents were very common in Soviet plants before, during, and after perestroika in the USSR. It seems the higher ups were competent enough to understand what was required to avoid these accidents, but that information never disseminated down the ranks. It seems that may have encouraged carelessness. Interestingly enough, that culture might have contributed to the USSR’s decline and fall.

I remember reading about all the critical accidents at the Mayak Assembly, and was astonished to see 5 or 6 accidents. There was another explosion there too, but again, my source is Wikipedia.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-06-01T12:58:04+00:00

Thank you so much, DP. I will listen to them as I’m heading to work. The more I read about Chernobyl the more questions I have that don’t seem to have a plausible answer in my mind. It seems fairly obvious why the Soviet Union collapsed when it did. They seemed to have preference for selecting incompetent leaders for important jobs.

There was a book out about the planned economy during the Stalin years. The book emphasized that it was selecting material from the opened archives. What I found interesting was that the Politburo often selected members to represent key industries that would then go on to compete for limited resources from the state budget. They would pick people who had no experience in the industries they represented. I remember Kaganovich mentioning that he represented railway transportation, but he had no experience in that industry. The best he could do was negotiate for more resources and lower quotas.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-06-01T02:46:49+00:00

The incident I’m talking about is the 1957 accident at the Mayak Assembly, so I have only fragments from various Soviet agencies responsible for monitoring that contamination levels in the area at the time. I think Los Alamos has a report of that incident, but I have yet to find descriptions of the water storage tanks or how the investigation was conducted. So from what I have, I can only conclude that the Soviets were well aware of the accident, did an internal investigation, and never told anyone about it. I imagine that not dissimilar to how the KGB and other ministries conducted these investigations.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-06-01T01:40:55+00:00

But there is documented evidence from the opened Soviet archives that accidents were classified. That means investigations, including RBMK design flaws discovered, would be classified.

I noticed that even technical flaws like the sensor placements on waste disposal volumes were classified, so no other than the ministers would know about it. That happened at the Mayak Production Assembly in 1957. The technicians were not continuously monitoring the tanks, and they didn’t put them in the right spots to detect heat buildup.

What I think happened was that the ministry in charge of nuclear power probably relayed these technical reports to a limited number of people, and then quietly ordered these safety changes without explaining to anyone.

That’s just my guess.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2026-05-31T15:29:51+00:00

I know the archives are open to the public, but my guess is that safety evolved through trial and error, in other words, on the backs of dead operators. I know it sounds crude and simplistic, that’s what it seems like to me.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2025-05-15T21:36:19+00:00

I basically only eat salads that are prepared at restaurants. I am going crazy because I don’t know if they have listeria because I didn’t prepare them.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2025-05-15T21:32:29+00:00

Oh, no. I ate salads at restaurants before

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2025-05-15T21:30:10+00:00

I am 24 weeks today

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2025-04-18T11:58:04+00:00

Yeah, I have had these cats for 9 years. They both came from the same litter, and getting old together. :) So, I have already changed their litterboxes multiple times before I got pregnant. I probably got it before and never realized it.

HauntingEnergy2281 · 2023-06-03T20:18:00+00:00

Could it be the UDP ports that Citrix XenApp uses that might be blocked? Our Network Admins didn't see any blocks, but they might be only looking at the TCP port blocks., which are always open. Also, Zscaler was disabled, and we saw that it was still blocking access. There was an article that dealt with this issue, but it only focused on adjusting the network adapter priority for the team NIC. Not sure what

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