Did he deliberately get dangerously close to something radioactive, in order to shut it down/stop the danger?
Keep 'em coming.
Did he install the alarm?
Was construction eventually completed at the site?
Were lives saved by temporarily halting construction?
Were lives saved by permanently halting construction?
Was the alarm intended to detect radiation at a nuclear plant, but was surprisingly triggered before the nuclear fuel was on site?
Keep em coming.
I think you missed my last question, so:
Did he deliberately get dangerously close to something radioactive, in order to shut it down/stop the danger?
NOPE.
Did he bring something near the radiation sensor that was not generally known to be radioactive? E.g., a product was found to be dangerous because it triggered a radiation alarm at a nuclear power plant construction site?
I recall something about red glaze that used to be used on dinner plates.
Nope.
And nope.
Recap (click to show/hide)
Lives refers to human lives.
At work means the site where a nuclear power plant was being constructed.
The alarm was intended to detect radiation at the nuclear plant, but was surprisingly triggered before the nuclear fuel was on site.
The alarm was not a wired system.
Were it not for the alarm, people would have died due to radiation, toxins, or possibly asphyxiation.
The alarm was designed to trigger in this situation, but it was still surprising [to who?] that it was triggered.
Most/all of the lives he saved were not people in the place the alarm was supposed to cover.
It is not important whether the alarm caused people to evacuate the premises.
My questions:
Does “alarm” actually refer to a state of alarm or other warning procedure, rather than a device?
Did Stan set off the alarm on purpose?
~Max
I better make sure I understand:
What is a wired system in terms of alarms?
I had an earlier puzzle about an alarm system where multiple pressure plates were connected by the same wire, so the alarm would only go off if all of them were activated at once. Is this a similar case, but by design?
I assumed that to mean there are wires in the walls to transmit the warning signal. As opposed to a wireless alarm system, or one that is self-contained (i.e. has its own siren).
Did Stan notice when the alarm had been set off?
Was Stan the only one to notice the moment the alarm had been set off?
~Max
I thought for a moment it might be the Soviet nuclear false alarm incident (Stanislav Petrov was an engineer), but the circumstances don’t seem to match.
Was the alarm triggered by construction materials? (I suspect that this is it, except that if so, coal ash probably was involved)
Was it triggered by something intended to be a food product?
Was it triggered by something whose primary use is as a store of value (money, gold, gems, etc.)?
NO.
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Was the alarm designed to trigger automatically? Did it?
Was the alarm triggered by mechanical action?
Was the alarm supposed to have been set off already, before Stan arrived on the scene?
Did the alarm require power?
ETA: Did the alarm include a geiger counter?
~Max
words.
I guess so. We’ve established it was checking for radiation.
Was radioactive material unexpectedly found where Stan was working?
Did the alarm device malfunction?
~Max
Good idea.
is it Stanislav Petrov?
NO to both.
Nope.