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Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest
- tres 16y agoThe title is technically correct; however, it seems like link bait once you get to page two of the article and see: "Bridenbaugh told ABC News that he believes the design flaws that prompted his resignation from GE were eventually addressed at the Fukushima Daiichi plant."
- Paulomus 16y agoYes, but he hesitated to say this was sufficient and said the reactors were still "a little more susceptible to an accident that would result in a loss of containment".
- tres 16y agoThe qualitative assessment of the plant's design is outside the scope of what I'm commenting on. I'm referring to the journalistic bait-and-switch which hides a very relevant piece of information (that contradicts the implied assertion of the title) on page two of a banner-encrusted site. In the context of current events, the title of the link suggests some kind of spectacular negligence. At the point where the scientist says the design flaws were addressed, [his resignation due to design flaws] is no longer a story that adds anything relevant or noteworthy to the discussion. It's merely a historical fact disconnected from current events. If the title of the article had followed the content and been focused on the expert sharing their knowledge and discussing possible problems with the design I would have appreciated it much more. [edit: clarify what is no longer newsworthy]
- rbanffy 16y ago> he believes the design flaws that prompted his resignation from GE were eventually addressed Anyway, a design that blows up when power is cut because it cannot cool itself down to safe levels is... weird.
- rbanffy 16y agoDear downvoter, would you buy a car that falls apart (or blows up killing the passengers) when it runs out of gas? If something can go wrong, it will, given time, go wrong. Even if there is one chance in a million for the whole chain of countermeasures to fail in tandem, give it a million chances to happen and you end up with a good chance of it happening.
- ceejayoz 16y agoThere are part/system failures in cars that result in death, just as with nuclear reactors.
- eli 16y agoThey typically don't take out nearby villages as well, but point taken.
- rbanffy 16y agoIndeed there are, but one could suppose nuclear reactors would only fail catastrophically when something catastrophic happened, not when being shut down.
- anamax 16y ago> one could suppose nuclear reactors would only fail catastrophically when something catastrophic happened, not when being shut down. Shutting down after a tsunami took out much of the support equipment seems somewhat catastrophic.
- georgieporgie 16y agoThe embedded video was American scare-journalism at its finest. Workers at a compromised nuclear site wearing full suits and masks? Why, that's just like CHERNOBYL!