Humans tend to make mistakes... then accidents happen

摘要

In retrospect, the mistakes people make in industrial settings seem dumb, and usually avoidable. The incident in late September at a nuclear fuel processing plant in JC shockingly reckless. Officials there said workers had mixed eight times the amount of uranium in a single vessel. The fundamental principle of causing a nuclear reaction is to put a lot of uranium in a confined space. If enough uranium is together, when one atom splits, neutrons fly out and split neighboring uranium atoms. This reaction can be self-sustaining and releases enormous energy.