Typical slop at nuclear plants

Here's where you want to read about the slop that goes on in nuclear plants every day. Only you never hear about it until something blows up. At one plant (to be nameless), somewhere in the world, there were these giant resin filters, filled with billions of plastic beads. Extreme sloppiness allowed the strainers and valves to deteriorate. More sloppiness allowed the backup strainer to be removed. Millions of beads flooded the whole system and shut it down for a long time. Silence.

At another plant, the backup power system was wired incorrectly, so that it wouldn't have worked for 30 years. Shut down quite a while to get that fixed. Silence. There are worse things being set up.

Still, I'm all for a new nuclear plant!