Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Plainly Difficult" channel.

  1. This ,the Kobe Steel quality scandal and a few other Japanese industrial scandals all seemed to come out around the same time and could be some content on this channel someday too. They all basically had their roots in the lost decade, japanese corporate culture, and the loss of a quality focused company culture as well as a healthy amount of corruption and coverups
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  2. ah yet another case of "Dude where's my Gamma Ray Source?"
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  3. "He worked his 13th straight 7 day week." Lesson: Don't do this Modern Businesses: "7 day weeks constantly you say?"
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  4. "The company sent employees to meet with the epa and gave them a script to follow, they instead flipped and blew the whistle." gee I wonder how that could have happened, why wouldn't they just commit felonies like good loyal employees?
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  5. if you're gonna cover refinery explosions you'll be at this for a few more years, especially since huston makes one every year
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  6. "Some workers observed slab deflecture of up to 2 feet" me noping the fuck out of there
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  7. man I've worked with enough finicky automated conveyors to know the pain these guys faced with shitty equipment. They should have built containers that couldn't burst in the machinery
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  8. Almost seems like there should have been a mechanical interlock to drop the source if the door was opened while the pneumatic cylinder is retracted or some kind of gate by the end of the maze to trip the mechanical failsafe if the source was still out of the pool
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  9. ya that's the creepy part, these guys know they're going to die and have a matter of hours before their bodies start reacting to the trauma so they can walk out of these facilities 'fine' and give interviews before dying to radiation poisoning
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  10.  @nigelft  most doctors probably aren't really accustomed to knowing for absolute certainty someone is going to die. Taking as much radiation as he did, he absolutely was going to die, but there was probably only a handful of doctors who had ever treated similar patients
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  11. once again a door, a radiation sign, an industrial irradiation source, and night shift
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  12. called it! also WHY WOULD YOU EVER STEP INTO SOMETHING CALLED AN IRRADIATOR
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  13.  @Paultimate7  idk, I think putting a big pit in the ground instead of a door interlock was a very smart feature considering how easily western designed door seitchesfailed in every single irradiator incident, and the irradiator doesn't seem to have quite the same jamming issues the other systems have. the control panel was probably where this broke down because you had no real way to look at the problem
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  14. I see this and the Ashtabula Horror have the same root cause, a developer that ignores the design of everybody around them and gets away with it right up until they didn't
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  15.  @volvo09  tbf, most substances aren't damn near impossible to handle and changing states in the process but their solution to reheat the barrel was incredibly dumb, instead of setting the thing aside for more level heads to fix
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  16.  @graafisk  the emission of these cars was like 20x what it should be. the cars in those fields were leftovers that didn't get fixed, or resold, and many were flood cars that got damaged in the hurricane harvey flood. Letting them drive around for 20 years would have gone well beyond what it cost the environment to manufacture them
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  17.  @CristiNeagu  chernobyl was a planned bypass of safety systems without access to the technical and incidental knowledge of instability at low power levels in rbmks which having been known ahead of time would have prevented the test from going forward, probably. The Iowa turret explosion was the result of the same situation where someone planned a dangerous test and operators left to carry it out were ignorant of the dangers as well as poorly trained
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  18. might be writing with a bit of hindsight like all those people who insist they knew the titanic was doomed
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  19. Sampoong kills 500 people: "We'll sign everything over and go to jail." Sacklers kill >50,000: "here's 1/4th of our wealth, we didn't do anything, we're not going to jail, we're also going to need immunity from charges." God bless freedomland because we can't seem to hold people accountable
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  20. I still keep getting notices for a car that I totalled a decade ago, kind of silly really.
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  21. in this instance the reports focused on the actual weight not the output, this was a very large building
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  22. what about Radioactive Asbestos?
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  23. there's just so many stupid decisions that went into that fire, there's a lot to cover, most of them revolving around treating workers much the same way amazon does but without government regulations saying you have to do things like give them stairways and fire doors
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  24. he didn't even mention that the report says several beams were compromised as well to put the escalator banks in and later retrofitting for fire code
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  25. its not the debt from the post war boom its the shrinking of the economy and its growth. italy and many of the western european countries had double didget gdp growth for that period of the 50s and 60s before grinding to a halt and shrinking down to anemic levels for decades
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  26. might as well have given a nuclear source to cavemen
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  27.  @RCAvhstape  I've worked enough places to understand that safety comes from the top, and if management has a culture of ignoring it then people will get killed or maimed until its enforced. even basic ppe is ignored if management doesn't enforce it
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  28. always love how these photographs from these sits are terribly unlit to the point where you can't even tell what happened... huh.
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  29. really makes the entire drug war pointless and depressingly terrible given it hadn't really taken off yet in 1969
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  30.  @bdf2718  if they had a chemical engineer on staff, he should have tipped the chemist into the mixer for even suggesting something so ridiculously stupid
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  31.  @colincampbell767  green energy is not, has not been, and isn't going to be texas's problem, they have a massive sprawling population and refuse to do anything long term like lowering energy consumption, connecting their grid to out-of-state generators, or do anything to reduce urban-heating feedback. there's plenty of spare on demand generation capacity in the country, its just they're trying to let the magical free market deal with long term planning, also its a bit ironic complaining about supposed green energy corruption when every politician in texas is deeply in the pocket of big oil
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  32.  @ianmacfarlane1241  plus all the disinformation regarding nukes back then, these were simple fishermen, even PHD scientists were being misdirected by governments trying to downplay the effects of nuclear weapons
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  33. "Hey I know, lets run the reactor with no coolant!" "You're fired."
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  34.  @brettsalling  if they had scrammed early in the disaster, let the reactor cool off and reset they could have later brought it up to power
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  35. goes to show that even a very controlled closed system like this has edge cases where things fail spectacularly
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  36. I think we have the technology today and do this but not really in the 1990s and if we did we probably weren't using it on Georgia, as we had a bit more of a problem in Kazakhstan and Ukraine
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  37. Having listened to Lions Lead by Donkeys episode on Georgia, I'm actually shocked they had the resources to even find the radioactive materials
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  38. if the symptoms of severe glaucoma or phantom limb syndrome are guides, you'd be swimming in hallucinations and false sensory feedback since the brain isn't capable of shutting off those parts when the limbs/nerves fail, so they just go crazy
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  39. well, it is a research reactor
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  40. but florida is a shining example to the rest of america
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  41.  @poiiop2626  its not even that far off from workers in the US, especially the older guys. I haven't seen it personally but every place I've worked in always has had that guy that jammed the interlocks to use the equipment faster and gets caught
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  42.  @m0314700308891515  makes you sleep great knowing china has more nuclear infrastructure than japan and are a hell of a lot worse than japan in every regard that caused this incident
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  43. a condo collapse in florida? it would never happen today!
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  44. pressure from management can get a lot of things done, including things that ought not to be done
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  45. about as close to the Dr No nuclear reactor as ever built. Seems James Bond would have been killed in the first movie
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  46. There's a guy named Bob, we'll be making him into an AI someday but his head's on ice right now
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  47.  @colincampbell767  train derails, spills 50,000 gallons, pipeline leaks, spills 50,000 gallons an hour
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  48.  @jasonhaynes2952  bought one from Ikea, had nearly enough uranium to go critical
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  49. harold was the most american man in the world, being made of more america than anyone else, ever
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  50.  @TwoTreesStudio  A lot of these machines are getting better and better at doing more with less and the older machines are being phased out too. Its really an IAEA problem that we didn't make the warning signs universal enough and have an actual chain of custody for these sources until they're recycled. Fortunately they finally have moved to a sign that tries to better communicate how flipping deadly these things are but chain of custody is still the biggest issue in these incidents
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