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To: Lurkinanloomin

The numerous engineering failures were all preventable, most especially the failed FMEA that allowed an loss of coolant accident to occur as the result of an unanticipated tsunami.

Engineers don’t try to predict what might happen, they design systems like this with sufficient redundancy that the worst case failure modes do not occur.


19 posted on 08/22/2019 8:21:34 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

Wasn’t the reactor also supposed to have been retired 20 years prior, but kept on because of their own environmentalists preventing replacement?


51 posted on 08/22/2019 11:03:37 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: bigbob
Engineers don’t try to predict what might happen, they design systems like this with sufficient redundancy that the worst case failure modes do not occur.

Yeah, like building back up generators on the ground where, if a tsunami did occur, they would be inundated and useless in 3 days. Nice. GE.

Power that would be too cheap to meter. Gotcha!

Atoms for peace!

And we have hundreds of these effin' things all over the world!

And no safe storage for spent fuel rods for ANY of them. Nice going.

66 posted on 08/23/2019 4:13:07 AM PDT by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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