👋 Introduction post
Operating fintech infrastructure for 10+ years,
added AI workloads to the mix, started documenting
what nobody writes about.
What I cover at errorbudget.io:
→ vSAN OSA vs ESA for mixed workloads
→ vGPU on Dell VxRail (18 months production notes)
→ NVAIE licensing math
→ 19 audit questions for AI infrastructure
→ DCGM monitoring alerts that actually matter
Free tools at tools.errorbudget.io.
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Independent scholars estimate the radioactive iodine release from the SRE meltdown could have been up to 250 times greater than the 1979 disaster at Three Mile Island. Yet, contractors and the federal government successfully executed a highly coordinated cover-up. Weaponizing Cold War patriotism, officials enforced an absolute gag order on workers, hiding the incident behind deceptive press releases for 20 years.
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At the center of this legacy is the July 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) meltdown. When a coolant loop leaked an organic fluid into the liquid sodium streams, it baked into a thick carbon sludge that choked the reactor core. Lacking a secondary concrete containment dome, operators manually opened facility garage doors over several weeks to vent highly radioactive gases directly into prevailing valley winds.
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The third talk recording from DevOpsDays Zürich 2026 is online. 🎥
Olga Kristjansdottir on how to shift from reactive patching to sustainable problem-solving. Blameless reviews. Designing fixes for the next year, not the next hour. Breaking the firefighting cycle.
Lasting stability doesn't come from faster firefighting.
Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1195128844
Or YouTube: https://youtu.be/MHEkiJLjeew
In the meantime, you can watch a brief trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxOB5BHbKE
Or a technical short:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/btnARcMFkHQ
about the Santa Barbara Field Laboratory, but best watch the full documentary In the Dark Valley (2021).
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This intense grassroots mobilization has fueled an incredible petition with over 600,000 signatures, demanding that the government and current site owners take real accountability and fully clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory once and for all.
How much longer will these communities be forced to pay the price for secrets kept 60 years ago?
#TheEarthGazer #SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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These families have shared deeply moving symbols like Beads of Courage, where every single glass bead a child receives physically represents a painful medical milestone—such as enduring chemotherapy or a blood transfusion.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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The Human Cost: Beads of Courage
The response from the local communities to this invisible, multi-generational threat has been profound. Local parents, such as Melissa Bumstead, whose own daughter battled a rare leukemia, began using everyday tools like Facebook and Google Maps to map out clusters of sick children right in their own neighborhoods.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #children
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This process lofts 60-year-old legacy radioactive particles straight into the smoke plumes, weaponizing the pollutants and carrying them far into the air columns. Even when emergency crews heroically achieve 100% containment on a blaze, the smoke passing over the area causes extreme, justified anxiety, requiring the active deployment of hazardous materials and radiation monitoring teams to track the air quality.
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Today, this legacy remains an active threat through what researchers call the "incinerator chimney effect". When a massive wildfire—such as the recent Sandy Fire—tears through the area, the intense heat vaporizes the contaminated soil and plant life.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
#radioactive #wildfires #SandyFire
Johnson Lee | errorbudget.io
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