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| AlbertL:
To me, the most interesting aspect of this film is seeing how the reactor is manually controlled and how it responds as the operator works the control rods while closely watching the chart recorder showing the power level: |
| Bassman59:
They changed PID loop parameters by changing the operator! |
| AlbertL:
I'm picturing the chief engineer arriving in the morning after the night shift has left, lights up his pipe, looks at the power chart, shakes his head and mutters "Somebody tell that boy to stick with the decaf - he's gonna wear out that damned control-rod drive before the month is over! I keep sayin' to handle that reactor like you'd handle a woman; make 'er wait a little and she'll give you everything you want." |
| AlbertL:
Here's another great vintage reactor film. It shows the "computing power" that was [literally] behind the operators - a couple of guys with slide rules and binders full of core loading diagrams. The exterior view shown in the opening shot looked familiar, but I couldn't quite place it until near the end, when the narrator casually mentioned that the reactor had been given a new designation: SL-1. That name would become infamous on a frigid January night in 1961. |
| farlander762:
Fukushima Daiichi anyone? Those were all boiling water reactors. |
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