Soviet control rooms

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Pfftt

Why the complexity?

Reactor on/off switch and perhaps a gauge for temperature…

So you don’t warp the, erm, reactor cylinder head and need it skimming or something.

squirrelking is Homer J. Simpson and I claim my £5.

He has way more authority than I do, I’m more of a Lenny.

I visited Chapelcross nuclear power station on a school trip, and the control room looked a bit like some of those Soviet photos. I remember a lot of bakelite control boards with lit up glass panels.

The advent of a digital screen with 20 or so traces has made things a lot easier

I’ve been trying to find a picture of a Shackleton cockpit (might have been a Nimrod or something) “in use” as they had ISTR all the engine dials “wrongly” aligned so that the pilot could see at a glance everything was ticketty-boo.

In other words, at standard temps and pressures all the dials’ arrows pointed to 12 o’clock and without reading or even really seeing the readouts the crew would know there was a problem.

Anything that requires interpretation or more clarity could kill you.