Pinging some who posted to Fukushima articles
Before TMI operator training was much different than now. Besides training ergometrics where also investigated. All operating nukes were required to make changes after TMI. One was the construction of a simulator for training. The simulator was an exact replica of the control room down to the furnishings and the color of telephones.
Unless a trainee or operator requalifying looked behind him to see the windows into the trainers room, they could not see a difference between the control room and the simulator.
I forget how accurate the S/W had to emulate the actual plant. At that time they all used Gould minicomputers. All of the alarms, meters, etc. in the simulator responded the same as the actual plant would as the controls were moved.
There was a cacophony going on in the TMI control room during that incident. A large part of the problem went back to the plant design including the control room. From what I’ve read and seen afterwards and while at TMI following the incident, I don’t believe it’s sabotage.
People were challenged by an unusual happening and their equipment and training didn’t provide the tools they needed.
Thank you for the ping.
Sabotage possible at TMI? Sure it’s “possible”.
Is it likely? I doubt it. The envirowackos we
now deal with were still in their infancy and the
kind of people who would be willing to sabotage a
nuclear plant for their green agenda are NOT the
kind of people to put in the time and effort to
learn the needed skills in order to become employed
at one. Could someone have been paid to booger up
things there? Sure...but never attribute to malice
that which can be explained by incompetence, stupidity
or crappy instrumentation. There are plenty of more
realistic reasons behind what happened. But people
LOVE a good conspiracy theory.