Re: The Warm Equations

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:55:21 -0600, John Savard wrote:

On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:05:36 -0700, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
 

And it is rarely the engineers who do this.

 
Although sometimes they're pressured to put a different hat on in order
to sign on when others do it.
 
Yes, Morton Thiokol, I'm looking at you and remembering the Challenger
disaster.
 
John Savard

A famous example of engineering foresight is the resolution of
the Xenon poisoning incident that spoiled the startup of the first
industrial-scale nuclear reactor.

https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/manhattan-project/p4s36.html