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> Fukushima, remember, had a triply-redundant (or whatever) power supply to ensure that cooling power could be provided even in the event of a simultaneous melt
by icelancer 8y ago
> Fukushima, remember, had a triply-redundant (or whatever) power supply to ensure that cooling power could be provided even in the event of a simultaneous meltdown and grid failure. Oops.
Yeah, and then they installed the backups below where the main plant was, rendering them completely useless. Oops.
This was a human failure. Not a technological one.
- rorykoehler 8y agoIf it happened once what's to stop it happening again. Think about the type of people who design nuclear power plants. These are some of the smartest people on the planet and they still managed to make this terrible error.
- matt2000 8y agoHumans design technology, a technological failure is a human failure.
- ajross 8y agoAnd your proposal is that these future spiffy reactors will be designed by something other than... humans?
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