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Originally Posted by DGthe3
You can remove human operators from a control room, but then you have to rely on the engineers anticipating every event and designing the system to compensate, and do it perfectly. But you can't anticipate everything, particularly with something as complex as a nuclear reactor. And when an engineer makes a design mistake, without a human in the loop the system can be a total loss, which is simply unacceptable when that 'total loss' means a nuclear meltdown. Its far safer to have an experienced, alert opperator there monitoring the equipment. The trick is, how do you keep the operators alert? Watching gauges all day long and seeing next to no changes becomes exceedingly boring and tedious. But that is a far easier problem to solve than making a perfect system.
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All true. I wasn't really talking about getting rid of people and having it be self sustaining as much as making so if a mistake happens or someone doesn't do their job, it doesn't start the chain of events that's causes a large accident. I know all about engineering mistakes. I deal with them on an everyday basis. I'm one of the humans you speak that fine them before a larger problem happens.
