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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/461446.stm
Blue smoke
The cause of the leak - detected at 1035 local time
0135GMT)
- was not immediately known.
The head of the company's Tokyo office,
Makoto Ujihara, said the workers told other
staff at the plant that "they saw a blue flame
rising from the fuel" and complained of nausea.
Plant manager Makoto Ujihara briefed the press
about the accident
"We are still trying to find what exactly
happened but we believe the uranium reached
the critical point", the spokesman for JCO
was quoted as saying
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Magic smoke
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Magic smoke being released
A computer chip rendered useless after the magic smoke
escaped through a hole blown in the top.The magic smoke
(also called blue smoke) theory is a running in-joke
originating among electrical engineers and technicians
before more recently being adopted by computer programmers.
The magic smoke hypothesis is based on the real-life
observation of the emission of blue smoke from microchip
packages when the chip has been allowed to overheat
or forced to conduct extreme electrical current.
According to the theory, there is a little bit of
magic blue smoke in every integrated circuit,
resistor, transistor, and all other electronic components
and it is this smoke which makes the device work.
The magic smoke is put in at the factory when the device
is manufactured. High voltages or excessive current
supposedly releases the smoke. The humorous proof
of the theory is that once the magic smoke has been
released, the chip is lacking a key component and
no longer works. The smoke thus served an essential part
in the device's function. In some variations, it is alleged
that the major microchip production companies
(especially the large microprocessor manufacturers) are
involved in a conspiracy to keep the true nature of their
products under wraps.
This has lead to use of the phrase "escaping of blue smoke"
as a euphemism for the destruction of a processor
(or other integrated circuit) by overheating.
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http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/563/5376.html
Conclusions
The nuclear industry is proud of its "defense-in-depth"
design, and claims that it makes accidents almost impossible.
However, in this case, a combination of operator error
and shortcomings in the complex control systems
destroyed a lot of the "defense-in-depth" as system
after system failed. An incident that began with
one electronic component ended up costing EdF an
estimated 1.5 million euros (US$1.3 million).
The incident raises another question: How many other reactors
all over the world have similar shortcomings in their
instrumentation and control systems? The question is an
important one, because shortcomings that violate
a reactor's "defense-in-depth" also violate its safety case.
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http://www.indigosun.com/june98/dorothea.html
The Order of the Blue Rose
by Dorothea Cangelosi
The smoke that has filled the skies is a warning that
what is created in other parts of the world can come back
to haunt everyone. Do not sit idly by, thinking that
all will be well. No action is still an action!
Use this time to join together in meditation for
world peace and world unity. With unity all can be
healed and brought into harmony.
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