Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Fires at Nuclear Plant

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Are they falling apart? Sinking under the weight of their own stupidity? Who knows? These fires seem to be a bit much, though, especially since they are trying to wave their magic wand and restart the units. What was really damaged? How did they fix it? I think this is a fine example of closed-mouthed bloody-minded opacity gone amuck.

5 comments:

harbles said...

Bad news. Either they have a fire bug or the wiring is arcing all over the place. Maybe they store oily rags in cardboard boxes? I wonder if they publish accident reports on those fires?

Monado said...

Probably their procedures require them to file accident reports. Publishing them might be another matter. Maybe you can get onto a Concerned Citizens' Committee to review safety.

Monado said...

Oh, now that I go to the article I see that it's in Japan.

But maybe there's still a concerned citizens' group here. There were 10,000 pages of procedures at our nuclear plants (and probably more now). I happen to know because they are an example of content management done by The Rockley Group, who demonstrated how to put them online for quick retrieval.

Harbles said...

And there is this from TEPCO but no mention of "a string of fires" since.

Harold Asmis said...

Silliness with earthquakes and fire protection is not confined to those guys.