Re:Safe Enough?
by noduerme on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:21AM
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>> A nuclear power plant's approximately twenty thousand safety components have a Rube Goldberg quality. Like dominoes, numerous pumps, valves, and switches must operate in the required sequence to simply pump cooling water or shut down the plant. There were innumerable unlikely combinations of failures that could cause an accident
Query: Is anything this complex designed this way today, without actually running all its failure modes through risk analysis before actually building it?
Re:Safe Enough?
by grun3 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @07:58AM
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After watching industrial disaster post-mortems by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, I think the answer is yes. Plenty of stuff gets built without considering each failure mode.
Query: Is anything this complex designed this way today, without actually running all its failure modes through risk analysis before actually building it?