Yup, a friend tried to get me to read a book, a title I can never remember,
that goes on and on about man thinking that he has engineered to overcome
nature and every damn time nature wins. The fact that we have not witnessed a
bigger earthquake or bigger tsunami or stronger tornado or hurricane does NOT
mean that it hasn't happened before or will not happen in the future.
Design to 200% above the worst known natural problem to date and you will be
under designing.
Lester
On May 9, 2011, at 1:05 PM, Jim Johnson wrote:
> True, Daniel.... But try to engineer a back-up power system of that scale
> that can withstand a 9.0 earthquake followed by a massive Tsunami within
> hours. It's Murphy's Law... Whatever can go wrong will.
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:58 PM, <WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> That may be so. The cause of the Chernobyl accident was the running of
>> an unauthorised test that went wrong. Ironically the test was to test
>> emergency procedures due to loss of power to cooling pumps.
>>
>> Harrisburg, Three Mile Island - something to do with the cooling valves.
>>
>> Fukishima - failure of the cooling system due to loss of back-up power
when
>> the electricity failed.
>>
>>
>> Seems to me the common theme to all these nuclear accidents lies in the
>> design and backups for the cooling system.
>>
>> Weslake-Monza 1330
>>
>> In a message dated 09/05/2011 17:46:58 GMT Daylight Time,
>> bmwwxman at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> Chernobyl was poorly designed and badly constructed.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers!!
> Jim Johnson
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