Foxboro's seems an appropriate control method; there IS no "steering wheel" to keep you from hitting the ground. Unclear too, of there being no override? of significant matters as say - closed manual valves for the ECC? (Emgcy. Cooling System) and such. I'd very much doubt that there can be No Human Override, given the n! possibly bizarre er physical failures imaginable.

Besides, for the US's determined non-standardization upon the actual design, construction of our many plants: so is each one a necessarily New Thing to derive safety factors about, etc. No savings of scale.. more chance for screwups. Anyway.. the reactor is a lot about physics, nothing about aerodynamics and with few random outside *effects - a whole nother ball o wax, I think.

* like that poor Lufhansa Clerk-pilot watching his plane descend towards the containment dome? with the assurance of the True-Believing Dumb Machine: bizness' perfect replacement for the CIEIO.


Ashton
Informed Selective Luddite