Like what has been done with fission, the electric utility industry will force Rossi into building a 20 Gigawatt Cat-E for “economy of scale” reasons.
Remember, the pebble bed reactor was never deployed by electric utilities because it could not be upscale to the *ginormous* sizes that the utilities must absolutely have. What will happen when some simpleton tech destroys the control box on this huge Cat-E…as in biofuels, what happens when someone starts a fire in a tinderbox forest …very bad things… It is hard to engineer around stupidity. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan J Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Alabama Tornadoes 2011: Emergency Declared at Browns Ferry Nuclear ... >> >> http://m.ibtimes.com/alabama-tornadoes-2011-emergency-declared-at-alabama-nuclear-plant-photos-139188.html >> >> Categorized as an "Unusual Event" >> > > This article says: > > > Preston D. Swafford, TVA's chief nuclear officer said on a March 26 tour of > that plant that Browns Ferry was ready for "a one-in-a-million-year flood, > or however many zeroes you want to go out," according to the New York Times. > > Yeah. Great. But in 1975 they were not ready for a 20-year-old guy with > a plumber's candle looking for an air leak. He accidentally set a fire in a > hallway. It burned for 7 and a half hours, badly damaging 1,600 cables. All > three sets of "redundant" controls were in that hallway, and the reactor > nearly went out of control. I think it was shut down for a year for repairs. > The supervisor said, "We had lost redundant components that we didn't think > you could lose." > > In May 1974 they discovered this reactor was built with "improper" valves > in the primary cooling systems of the 3 reactors. The valves were made for > 600 p.s.i. and installed in place that required 1,200 p.s.i. > > I still support nuclear power because it beats coal, but anyone who > supports it should realize that it has significant risks, mainly because of > human error. > > I sure hope Rossi will soon eliminate the nuclear fission industry . . . > and coal, and oil. > > - Jed > >
