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Around the time of the disaster there were stories about a GE engineer who resigned in protest in 1970 over this particular model of reactor. If I recall corre
by Duff 15y ago
Around the time of the disaster there were stories about a GE engineer who resigned in protest in 1970 over this particular model of reactor.
If I recall correctly, the engineering team's concerns about fail-safes in the event of a loss of electrical power were overruled or dismissed.
- tsotha 15y agoThe potential problems resulting from loss of electrical power were and are well understood. What happened in Fukushima wasn't a flaw in the reactor design - it was a flaw in the design of the power station.
- Duff 15y agoIt's a flaw in the system. A system built around a reactor with known risks if electrical supplies are interrupted. This is a region of a country where tectonic activity is significant enough that seaside villages are cutoff from the sea by 15 foot reinforced walls. A reactor with the failure characteristics of the Fukushima reactors sound like the wrong tool for the job to me.