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To: The KG9 Kid
Entirely appropriate course of action.

LOL! Sure, we'll spend a couple million and have a bunch of inspectors crawling over nuke plants for the next two years. They will conclude that the plants are up to spec for the design they were intended for. We already have a dozen government agencies that signed off on the original designs. The problem is when you get a plant designed to handle a 8.7 earthquake and 5 meter tsunami hit with a 9.1 earthquake and a 10 meter tsunami. This is pure political theater.

41 posted on 03/17/2011 1:47:41 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: ScreamingFist
"... They will conclude that the plants are up to spec for the design they were intended for."

Maybe the inspectors will find something wrong with the spec.

You know, like:

Inspector: "What's your backup plan in case these diesel generators that pump coolant go offline because of some unforseen calamity?"

Nuclear Plant Manager: "Uh, nothing really. Maybe go down to Home Depot and bring back a whole crapload of Honda generators, I guess? I don't know. Maybe it's in the spec? I'll have my guys check on that for you, Mr. Inspector..."

That's basically what happened at Fukushima. The plant didn't fail: The diesel generators did.

48 posted on 03/17/2011 1:56:09 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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