This is why you need to understand what you are doing.

[plugwash]

In the nuclear power industry there are two fundamentally different ways of minimizing accidents. One is to ask "What regulations can we put in place to make sure nobody does anything stupid?" The other is to ask "What safety interlocks can we build into this thing so that nobody can do anything stupid?" You can of course employ both but the first will only be a backup to the second.

or you can take the soviet approach and do neither of them properly

 

[felix]

Nice one Plugwash. We can sum it up thus:

The American approach - Regulation number 157c part 35 says thou shalt not turn off more than half the coolant pumps at once.

The British approach - The way these switches work, you can't turn off more than half the coolant pumps at once.

The Russian approach - I wonder what'll happen if we ---Oh ******!!!!

 

[Damocles]

What do you mean? In russia they sell off the coolant pumps to pay the wages. Then they blow the plant up so no one finds out.