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Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?

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April 17, 2018
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Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?

(as presented at RailsConf 2018)

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April 17, 2018

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  1. Who Destroyed Nickolas Means @nmeans

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  13. Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania @nmeans

  14. Three Mile Island Harrisburg, Pennsylvania @nmeans • #WhoDestroyedTMI @nmeans TMI

    Unit 2 906 MWe Babcock and Wilcox PWR

  15. @nmeans Bill Zewe Fred Schiemann Ed Frederick Craig Faust

  16. Condensate Polishers @nmeans

  17. Three Mile Island Unit 2 @nmeans

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  25. @nmeans TMI Unit 2 Control Room

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  27. Pressurizer @nmeans Connection to Primary Cooling Loop Heating Element Water

    Spray 1. Regulates System Pressure 2. Measures Water Level 3. Absorbs Pressure Shocks

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  44. Fuel Rod Assembly @nmeans

  45. Gary Miller George Kunder @nmeans

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  51. Final Core State @nmeans

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  53. Three Mile Island Today @nmeans

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  56. @nmeans Hindsight Bias

  57. @nmeans Outcome Bias

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  59. Three Mile Island Unit 2 @nmeans

  60. Three Mile Island Unit 2 @nmeans

  61. Pressurizer @nmeans Connection to Primary Cooling Loop Heating Element Water

    Spray 1. Maintains System Pressure 2. Measures Water Level 3. Absorbs Pressure Shocks

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  63. Heat at 100% 12 MWth 2,841 MWth Heat at Shutdown

    (6.5%) 0.78 MWth 185 MWth @nmeans

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  67. Three Mile Island Unit 2 @nmeans • #WhoDestroyedTMI Three Mile

    Island Unit 2 @nmeans

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  72. @nmeans Human error is never the cause.

  73. @nmeans Ask what is responsible, not who.

  74. @nmeans Understand why it made sense.

  75. @nmeans Seek forward accountability, not backward.

  76. @nmeans Always look for the second story.

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