
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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Is It a Particle Accelerator?
It's firing like an electron beam at the intensity required for an X ray beam, which is going to draw off 99% of that power anyway. I'm surprised it didn't just straight up explode. It's a testament to particle accelerators right as a science that like hey, you can make one of these it'll do it. You know, no problems the machine looks fine. Yeah. So the invest is noted that basically the speed at which the experience operator can make the changes the prescription information. That's eight seconds. Could that be? What do you feel like? We've got seven more slides and then we get safety third, which we can skip. Have a good night
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