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From: "Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>
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Subject: RE: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:04:49 -0700
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Date: 2003-08-17T12:04:49-07:00

I believe that this would be considered a gross design error. I suspect that
it is software.
Bob Leif

Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hyman Rosen [mailto:hyrosen@mail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 12:23 AM
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Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout

Robert C. Leif wrote:
> that the board can apply the full 10 volts to the servo-amplifier at
> startup. This results in the rotor reaching top speed, ca. 3,000 rpm, with
a
> 9 kilogram rotor with no simple means to slowly decelerate it. This is
> enough to make one a true believer in Ada!

So the board can do this because the software has a coding error?
The program is doing something illegal that allows this to happen?