“Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.”- Montel, and as two tragedies struck on a great morning with high hopes. We can only reflect on the who, what, how, where, and why(s) of yesterday. The Three Mile catastrophe and The Challenger Space Shuttle Launch has forever stained the picture we possess about mistakes in lack of cautionary actions. In addition, two men wrote memos to prevent these tragic outcomes; Dr. Hallman a manager at the TMI power plant in Ohio, about the Three Mile Island. Along with Roger Boisjoly an engineer at Morton Tinkol, who proactively warned about the engineering and weather for the takeoff. The Challenger took place on January 28, 1986 and dismantled after seventy-three second after liftoff, and claimed seven
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Karrasch had a great approach to utilizing specific reasons, and solutions from the questions presented in the document. Structured with great detail references and facts, along with instructions of what should have been accomplished. Such as, “recommend a change in Babcock and Wilcox's philosophy for HPI system use during low-pressure transients. The tone was similar to father to his son trying to get the bottom of movie scene event with educated terms. I believe what led to this fact was that they stated that all pregnant women and children were advised not to leave the house during the commotion of the unknown. The style was simplistic to grasp and comprehend from an expert in the field, including the feel coming off as a teacher engaging a room of graduate college students. Also a hint of annoyance, irritation was also felt in reading. I digress, the feel was extremely insightful, focused, and professional as demonstrated in this question, “If the pressurizer goes solid with one or more HPI pumps continuing to operate, would there be a pressure spike before the relief’s open which could cause damage to the RCS?” Even in asking questions, he knew the reason for failure was, human inaccuracies in the mechanics of day to day protocol. With the pipes backing up into the reactor leading to the meltdown; which was bad, but avoided the horrific outcome that could have been if the nuclear reactor had …show more content…
Bisjoly to R.K Lund about the failures of the SRM O-rings. The feel of this memo was straightforward with the issue at hand, along with that was no holding back in the tone of foolhardiness that accompanied this memo from start to finish. For example, “This letter is written to ensure that management is fully aware of the seriousness of the current O-ring erosion problem in the SRM joints from an engineering standpoint.” Not hinting to stop he takes jabs at the egos of the lack of caution they didn’t take his warnings of possible failure. Shown here he stated “The mistakenly accepted position on the joint problem was to fly without fear of failure.” His words were harsh, but not vulgar along with the style of a coach in the locker room with his team and their only up by two and celebrating. In in fact written six months prior to the event he did, in fact, predict that if not taken seriously this could be fatal as quoted here, “The result would be a catastrophe of the highest order - loss of human life.” Being that it was only seven lives, in retrospect it wasn’t that devastating, but the sure sight in itself scarred the live viewers at the scene for the rest of their
Karrasch had a great approach to utilizing specific reasons, and solutions from the questions presented in the document. Structured with great detail references and facts, along with instructions of what should have been accomplished. Such as, “recommend a change in Babcock and Wilcox's philosophy for HPI system use during low-pressure transients. The tone was similar to father to his son trying to get the bottom of movie scene event with educated terms. I believe what led to this fact was that they stated that all pregnant women and children were advised not to leave the house during the commotion of the unknown. The style was simplistic to grasp and comprehend from an expert in the field, including the feel coming off as a teacher engaging a room of graduate college students. Also a hint of annoyance, irritation was also felt in reading. I digress, the feel was extremely insightful, focused, and professional as demonstrated in this question, “If the pressurizer goes solid with one or more HPI pumps continuing to operate, would there be a pressure spike before the relief’s open which could cause damage to the RCS?” Even in asking questions, he knew the reason for failure was, human inaccuracies in the mechanics of day to day protocol. With the pipes backing up into the reactor leading to the meltdown; which was bad, but avoided the horrific outcome that could have been if the nuclear reactor had …show more content…
Bisjoly to R.K Lund about the failures of the SRM O-rings. The feel of this memo was straightforward with the issue at hand, along with that was no holding back in the tone of foolhardiness that accompanied this memo from start to finish. For example, “This letter is written to ensure that management is fully aware of the seriousness of the current O-ring erosion problem in the SRM joints from an engineering standpoint.” Not hinting to stop he takes jabs at the egos of the lack of caution they didn’t take his warnings of possible failure. Shown here he stated “The mistakenly accepted position on the joint problem was to fly without fear of failure.” His words were harsh, but not vulgar along with the style of a coach in the locker room with his team and their only up by two and celebrating. In in fact written six months prior to the event he did, in fact, predict that if not taken seriously this could be fatal as quoted here, “The result would be a catastrophe of the highest order - loss of human life.” Being that it was only seven lives, in retrospect it wasn’t that devastating, but the sure sight in itself scarred the live viewers at the scene for the rest of their