My thanks to @DRMacIver whose recommendation of https://how.complexsystems.fail/ led me into this literature.
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If you wanted longer reading on the subject you might enjoy "Behind Human Error". I struggled a bit with reading it though there was a lot I liked about it.
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You might also like "Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters" which doesn't connect up to the theory much but is a lot of good accounts of disaster in a very specific safety critical industry.
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Mostly it's good reading for understanding how badly people fuck up in practice in contexts where you really would expect them to take the time to get things right.
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Surprisingly, the sections on refining nuclear materials are especially interesting. There's a simple rule for making refining safe: Never have a vessel with a wide enough diameter that it can go critical if filled, even if you don't think it can have fissible materials in it.
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Except, this rule is always violated in practice, because some containers just can't possibly have fissible materials in them because that bit's not even connected up to anywhere they can be, so people forget about it. This goes about as well as you might expect.
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I don’t need to use prepared SQL here; there’s no way user input could get to this function.
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Yup, almost exactly that well, only with more explosions.
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