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Re: SCRAM

Simon M. Jerome wrote:
> 
> Just to confuse matters, I had read that the emergency shut down for
> CP-1 was a technician, poised to empty several gallons of saturated
> Cadmium Sulphate solution into the graphite/uranium lattice. This would
> have had the effect of making restarting CP-1 'difficult' and some of
> the scientists on the project thought that this was unecessary for that
> reason.
> 
> Anyone else care to shed some light on this?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Simon Jerome
> simon.jerome@npl.co.uk
> http://www.npl.co.uk/


Now that's the story the I heard.  The Axe Man would have cut something
retaining the Cadmium solution to bring the reaction down in an
emergency.
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