[BfloGuy]

A caller to Limbaugh yesterday, who claimed some familiarity with the original design and sale, said that the reactors were built to Japanese specifications and thus the responsibility lies with them. The reactors had originally been scheduled for decommissioning this year — but that had been put off.

[aruanan]

Something else the caller to Rush yesterday pointed out was that the reactors took a hit by a much more powerful earthquake than the specs called for them to be able to withstand and didn't fail until the tsunami, which was also much bigger than the Japanese civil authorities planned for. As far as the safety of nuclear power and earthquakes goes, the reactors operated just fine.

So, Joe Lieberman, Barry O, and related anti-nuke freaks, just bite it.

[newzjunkey]

Regulators in the 1960s and 1970s expressed concern the containment vessel would probably burst, spewing dangerous radiation, if the cooling systems ever failed.

Stay classy Fox.

[driftdiver]

Gotta get the lawsuits ready

[Doc Savage]

Thank God Immelt and Obummer will still be able to be rich and play golf without any ethical questions hanging over their communist heads. Gee, I’m relieved! They are both such nice guys.

[Hoodat]

At what point will Obama throw GE under the bus?

[mmercier]

It is unfair to hold liable an entity whose product failed after an earthquake, a tsunami, and a systemic power failure. The utilities whose grid failed have vastly more responsibility for failure to require on site generation capability for those facilities than GE.

We call them diesel generators. I worked in a facility that had one system with three units that was bigger than a a box car. It had capacity to run the buildings necessary operations for a week without external power.

[fightinJAG]

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[Paradox]

This is silly, the design has worked marvelously.

[MortMan]

The parenthetical editorial comment in the title is wrong, and is inflammatory.

The specification for the plant did not include an earthquake of this magnitude. Further, I have seen no credible allegation that the plant did not meet its specification.

We need to deal in facts, not emotion and innuendo.

[mewzilla]

Related link....

GE offers help to Japan, defends nuclear power industry