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> Of the well-known accidents, all of them were unexpected. What accidents are "expected" in any industry, energy or otherwise?
by shawnz 7y ago
> Of the well-known accidents, all of them were unexpected.
What accidents are "expected" in any industry, energy or otherwise?
- beat 7y agoAll sorts of accidents are expected. We take them into account. For example, if you operate a large data center, you simply assume that a certain number of drives and motherboards will fail, and build it into the plan. No one planned for Fukushima to be flooded. No on planned for one of Chernobyl's reactor cores to explode. (The phrase "impossible" was tossed around a lot; it took a good deal of thinking to finally recognize the design flaw.)