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Waltz mill reactor accident
According to your web page report reactor failure is not near correct. The original report provide to me show design failure. The failure of design could be criminal because common engineering procedures were not observed.

The return water to cooling tower had a 2 valve, electric powered pumping system supposedly large to provide flow in a capacity to keep reactor cool as needed. I don’t have info on pump or motor design. I’d bet 2 phase motor was used being so close to end of grid.

The electric motor and valve system failed and no water was able to pass that point. As you know, and I know systems fail. I know because I was employed as an operator in a energy recovery plant. In this case I also know that no backup motors, valves, or bypass piping was provided. Bypass in duplicate or triplicate is common practice in power plant safety. This was shown in several places in the book I received about the failure 25 years ago. ABobbyjoe (talk) 18:30, 2 November 2022 (UTC)