Everybody wasn’t told that nothing happened! Oh No! We’re all gonna die!
If the International Walnut Growers Association doesn’t have a copy of every form relating to every discrepancy report at Torness in the last five years by Tuesday it will be the end of the world! We must notify everyone!
Oh, and it works nothing like Chernobyl, unlike what it says in the article. The Chernobyl reactor was a failed attempt to integrate weapons-grade plutonium production and nuclear power, resulting in a radically different and uniquely unsafe design. Even then, it took a harebrained stunt to cause the accident (in other words, had the plant been designed as all others were, the operators could abuse it to no end and there would have been no Chernobyl; conversely, if the operators hadn’t abused it, they could have built it as they did and nothing would have happened). Chernobyl was a case study in how not to manage a nuclear power plant, from the drawing board to construction to testing to operations.
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Filed under Chernobyl, Emergency Response, International, Non Sequitur, Safety
Posted on December 31, 2005 by Stewart Peterson |