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Here's another youtube video that goes more extensively into the mechanics of the accident. It's pretty remarkable that they were able to work out the position

by timr 11y ago

Here's another youtube video that goes more extensively into the mechanics of the accident. It's pretty remarkable that they were able to work out the position of the control rods, given that they were blasted around the room during the accident, bent, broken and (in some cases) embedded in the ceiling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbaE_0LANc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbaE_0LANc

angersock 11y ago
Or in the personnel: Fifteen minutes later they found Legg, also dead—he had been impaled to the ceiling by one of the plugs used to seal the unused control rod channels That's pretty metal, I've got to say.