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From: Jones Beene
The Iranians could have avoided this accident if they had
read Feynman, but most of the workers were instructed not to ever read
anything written by a Jew or an atheist. Feynman was born to Jewish parents
but described himself as an atheist, so he was not on the approved reading
list. Too bad - this accident (if it was one) was probably predictable if
the workers knew the true level of enrichment of materials they were
constantly hiding from inspectors.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100200345/is-irans-mystery-nuc
lear-explosion-too-good-to-be-true/
In nuclear facilities there is a direct correlation between
safety and secrecy. When you are hiding enriched uranium, it can be
dangerous in non-obvious ways. If you tell your workers that this facility
"does not have anything over 20% enrichment", they will assume it to be
true, and use that in safety calculations for such mundane things as waste,
lathe turnings etc.
If you read Feynman's book he tells of being sent to Oak
Ridge during the Manhattan project years to find that safety sadly wanting,
due to too much secrecy. Highly enriched waste was being stored unattended
and a massive explosion could have set back the effort for years if not
forever. RF: "In my opinion it is impossible for them to obey a bunch of
rules unless they understand how it works. It's my opinion that it's only
going to work if I tell them, and Los Alamos cannot accept the
responsibility for the safety of the Oak Ridge plant unless they are fully
informed as to how it works!"
The lieutenant takes me to the colonel and repeats my
remark. The colonel says, "Just five minutes," and then he goes to the
window and he stops and thinks. That's what they're very good at -- making
decisions. I thought it was very remarkable how a problem of whether or not
information as to how the bomb works should be in the Oak Ridge plant had to
be decided and could be decided in five minutes. So I have a great deal of
respect for these military guys, because I never can decide anything very
important in any length of time at all.
In five minutes he said, "All right, Mr. Feynman, go ahead."
"I sat down and I told them all about neutrons, how they
worked, da da, ta ta ta, there are too many neutrons together, you've got to
keep the material apart, cadmium absorbs, and slow neutrons are more
effective than fast neutrons, and yak yak -- all of which was elementary
stuff at Los Alamos, but they had never heard of any of it, so I appeared to
be a tremendous genius to them."
"The result was that they decided to set up little groups to
make their own calculations to learn how to do it. They started to redesign
plants, and the designers of the plants were there, the construction
designers, and engineers, and chemical engineers for the new plant that was
going to handle the separated material...."
How do you say "oops" in Farsi?
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