I kind of like this series because of the dynamic between the various characters but this episode is a prime example of what's wrong with this series. The science and technology is terrible. It's not even close to correct. This episode for example states that a government nuclear reactor uses "ancient" technology. This is a true statement but it then says from the 1980s, which is completely wrong. I'm a nuclear engineer with over 30 years experience and am one of the top experts in reactor engineering in the country. Government reactors are all what's called Production Reactors. That is, they were designed to produce Plutonium for nuclear bombs. They were designed and built in the late 1940s and 1950s. Ancient does not even begin to describe these reactors. The most modern commercial reactors in the country are based on 1960s technology. Only in the last 5 or 6 years have some computer based control systems started to be installed. However, these computer based control systems do not have an automatic mode. In other words, they only provide a modern computer interface for the operator to control the systems. Even this is decades ahead of the production reactors, which I believe have all been shutdown. Next, no operator was ever designed to be operated by a computer or even remotely. As long as there is fuel in a reactor, there are operators in the control room. A reactor in long term cooling would have all of the fuel off loaded into the spent fuel pool. However, even with all of the fuel in the spent fuel pool, there would still be operators at the plant. There are lots of things that could go wrong with these old production reactors because, unlike more modern commercial reactors, they did not have the diverse and redundant safety systems of the newer reactors. Had the shows writers done even a cursory google search, they could have found this out. I have no problem with a couple of the episodes because while they stretch the current technology, they are possible. However, most episodes use bad science. The producers have no respect for the intelligence of the viewer.
