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Thread #136314   Message #3156272
Posted By: Charley Noble
18-May-11 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
Again I think it would be of interest to compare the computer logs from Fukushima-1 with her sister nuclear plant complex Fukushima-2 which somehow managed to survive the earthquake and tsunami without a meltdown. One would think that someone would want to know what worked, and what didn't.

mg-

One of the problems of being an engineer/control room operator at a nuclear power plant is that for 99.9% of the time routine things are happening. It's a very boring place to work. Then when there is a crisis, or something beyond the script, people in charge can make very bad mistakes. In a conventional power plant such mistakes may be devastating to the plant site (and its workers) but not the surrounding environment. Mistakes in operating a nuclear plant are essentially forever.

Charley Noble