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Attempting to bring clarity to the nuclear problems facing Japan
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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 24071" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>Re: Attempting to bring clarity to the nuclear problems facing Japan</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Its hard to speak with any authority on a reactor that is nearly a decade older than I am, but I suspect that, rather than profit mongering, it was excessive confidence in the quality of the design at the time of construction.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It should be mentioned that these plants functioned as designed until the tsunami wiped out their auxilliary power, and they survive an earthquake at least 10x (richter is logarithmic) beyond their design basis. GE and the regulators fault here was in underestimating the design requirements, rather than designing a bad product. The Russian RBMK, by comparison, is a fundamentally bad design.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 24071, member: 430"] Re: Attempting to bring clarity to the nuclear problems facing Japan Its hard to speak with any authority on a reactor that is nearly a decade older than I am, but I suspect that, rather than profit mongering, it was excessive confidence in the quality of the design at the time of construction. It should be mentioned that these plants functioned as designed until the tsunami wiped out their auxilliary power, and they survive an earthquake at least 10x (richter is logarithmic) beyond their design basis. GE and the regulators fault here was in underestimating the design requirements, rather than designing a bad product. The Russian RBMK, by comparison, is a fundamentally bad design. [/QUOTE]
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