[SystemSafety] Three Mile Island - Computer temperature readout during the incident

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2018-03-29 01:36 , Chuck_Petras at selinc.com wrote:
> Fun tidbit on human-machine interaction during the crisis.
> 
> "And it was unclear just how hot the core had become. Some temperature reading were high. Others
> were low. For a while, the computer monitoring the reactor temperature tapped out nothing but lines
> like these:
> 
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> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> [snip]"
The URL refers to Meltdown: Why our systems fail and what we can do about it, by Chris Clearfield
and Andras Tilczik. Clearfield is a former financial trader. Tilcsik is a Bus-School Prof at Toronto
specialising in organisational failure.

I haven't read the book. Various social/political scientists think it is wonderful, and it has won a
prize from the Financial Times and the McKinsey Bracken Bower prize. On their WWW site,
"rethinkrisk.net" there is a list of promotional-tour dates.

Good for them!

Maybe someone who has read it can tell us how many references there are to the engineering studies
of accidents? There are quite a few of those. There is even an international standard on Root Cause
Analysis, IEC 62740.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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