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In case you weren’t aware, the “safety control rod ax man” thing is aprocryphal and almost certainly not reflective of the origins of the term.
by jwkpiano1 2mo ago
In case you weren’t aware, the “safety control rod ax man” thing is aprocryphal and almost certainly not reflective of the origins of the term.
- Onavo 2mo agoSimpson's?
- wahern 2mo agoIt's one of the more truthy backronyms. There was an actual ax man with an ax whose job was to cut a rope to let loose the control rods, and they did use the (existing, apt) word, scram, for the emergency procedure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram
- CoryOndrejka 2mo agoExactly what I would have answered :)
- jwkpiano1 2mo agoNone of this contradicts the point I was making, which is that the OP implied that’s what the term meant, and it simply isn’t.
- euroderf 2mo agoAt the U Chicago squash court reactor there were also people with buckets of boron solution at the ready.