JimOfAllTrades
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I know! I first heard about it back in the late 70s when I was working at a commercial instrumentation and control seller who did a bunch of business both with Argonne and the INEL in Idaho. Everybody there told the story but frankly I never knew if I believed the part about the maintenance worker pulling the control rod out manually until decades later when I could read the documentation which became available on the internet.And that it was caused by the guy physically lifting the rod himself!
The story of the clean-up is also both impressive and harrowing. It wasn't Chernobyl level of course, but those folks went all in to try to make sure they had everything contained.
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