[Spridgets] Re Renewable energy (off topic)

[Jim Johnson]

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.
>
>
>



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