Re:Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too
by LaGrange on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @02:02AM
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> You say that as though the engineers are willing to sign off on any old half-baked plan.
Yes.
Re:Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too
by Natsu on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @04:25PM
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Then you are mistaken. At Fukushima, no less, there were reports about how an engineer held things up until his demands to improve the safety of some system were met. And his demands were met.
Certainly, there are a lot of things we have learned since that plant was designed that could be done better and if it had been just a tiny bit better, there wouldn't have been any leaks at all. But we can make plants a lot stronger these days. And we probably should be doing exactly that.
Re:Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too
by LaGrange on Thursday May 19, 2011 @09:42PM
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/fukushima-engineer-... you're talking about this one?
You say that as though the engineers are willing to sign off on any old half-baked plan. Maybe things are different in Japan, but around here, you have to get engineers to approve things personally and there are serious consequences for someone who signs off on something unsafe.