re: #68 Teukka

Real-world examples are the SL-1 and Chernobyl Block 4 accidents. First case, a technician jogged a control rod too much when re-attaching it to the controls, resulting in a power excursion that caused the reactor vessel to jump up 2 meters (SIC(!)). In the other, from the first idiot move to the point of no return it was 40 seconds, and a reactor designed for 3000 MWt output 30,000 MWt as its final confirmed reading (it probably went way beyond 30GWt).

The failure to understand exponential functions is the greatest flaw of the human race.

Don’t forget the reckless moron who discovered why the two pieces of plutonium were only supposed to get moved using the shims, after his screwdriver slipped and he took something like 200 sieverts by the time he managed to separate them again. In fairness, some reckless moron then did the same damned thing the same damned way months later, as I recall.