Chernobyl. Lesson from the past.
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Someone linked me over to this imgur gallery. Very detailed collection of photographs and text, very well put together if you have any interest do check it out:
I got about halfway through and found this:
This is 26-year-old Senior Reactor-Control Engineer Leonid Toptunov, one of the control room operators. He made a mistake when switching from manual to automatic control of the control rods, causing them to descend much farther into the core than intended. This resulted in an almost total shutdown of the reactor. Safety procedures required that the operators fully shutdown the reactor, as the RBMK became unstable at very low power. Unfortunately for the whole world, the Deputy Chief Engineer in charge that night - Anatoly Dyatlov - insisted that they continue. Over the next hour, the men struggled to bring the reactor up to power, disabling various safety systems in the process, and then began the test.
In this case, looking back management had set guidelines and standards, engineers had designed the system with protection and fail-safes, which were suitably over-ridden by the supervisor at the time.A quick check on Wikipedia reveals the same message.We've all made mistakes but have you had a time when you told someone "No, go ahead" and it turned out to be the wrong call?
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that link doesn't work.
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@DustinB3403 Turns out I can't spell imgur
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@Breffni-Potter said in Chernobyl. Lesson from the past.:
We've all made mistakes but have you had a time when you told someone "No, go ahead" and it turned out to be the wrong call?
Definitely reminds me of: Project Management of the RMS Titanic and the Olympic Ships
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I have a friend that I worked with in IT years ago, he was a junior manager under me at Dell for a few years, who was one of the kids who lived in Chernobyl and was evacuated.
