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@avon_deer @tryst They shaved down the fins at first, but after Grapple 1 failed to meet yield targets (1 megaton) they changed bomb designed and needed 5x more tritium. To do this they redesigned the cartridges to fit more fuel and have smaller cooling fins, and I think also without the standard covers.

@tryst Yeah that's where I remember that from, which is why the absence of that info seemed really puzzling to me as it's been known about for decades and is crucial to understanding the problem at Windscale.

I skim-watched a couple more videos and none of them mention this?? Like it's not a footnote; this has been known as one of the main contributors to the fire for decades and yet these videos just completely ignore them like it doesn't matter.

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It's such a vital piece of information, that the fuel cartridges were redesigned to run hotter inside the core to increase production, were way out of spec. The plant manager resigned over the changes.

The video doesn't mention this at all.

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Watched a YT vid last night about the Windscale fire.

20 mins long, and though it was well produced and enjoyable to watch something was conspicuous by its absence; the changes that UK gov forced the plant to adopt, despite protests from technical staff, which made the reactor run well outside design spec.

That might not seem like much but the vid presents Windscale as an accident due to a "fatal design flaw" and not gov pressure.

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@Bowsette Ninty kinda don't help themselves with the FOMO tactics/practices they've used in the past.

As a millennial who grew up in Britain, The Crystal Maze, Knightmare and ZZZap! are the Holy Trinity of weird telly shows that shaped my child psyche. Amazing stuff. You don't get telly like that any more.

I mean, they rebooted The Crystal Maze with Richard Ayoade, but it wasn't the SAME.

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I didn't realise I'd basically recreated "bonkers UK telly show The Crystal Maze except it kills you" until I realised one of the characters was basically immortal game vampire Richard O'Brien

this has only made the idea more compelling to me, naturally.

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my latest novel idea attempting to distract me from my WIPs is about extradimensional "puzzle houses" that spring up behind doors in cities, run by immortal game masters who promise a single wish to anyone who can survive and complete six of these deadly environments

and someone is going to say "ah, like Squid Game?"

and I am going to respond "no, like The Crystal Maze"

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