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Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade
GatorSnake writes "The US federal government issued a rare red finding against an Alabama nuclear power plant after an emergency cooling system failure. 'In an emergency, the failure of the valve could have meant that one of the plant's emergency cooling systems would not have worked as designed (PDF).' Does this further erode the argument that Fukushima was just an isolated incident in the 'modern' nuclear power age?"
"This is why we really need to spread out our research on fusion ; it's far more intrinsically safe."
So turning the Earth into the second star in our solar system is intrinsically safe?
I want some of what you are smoking.
We should have continued building and updating designs over the last 30 or 40 years, but anti-nuclear nuts have left us all pretty damn screwed.
Ah, the familiar mating cry of the pro-nuclear lobbyist.
Come to me babies! I want to screw you (for 20,000 years).
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
We should have continued building and updating designs over the last 30 or 40 years, but anti-nuclear nuts have left us all pretty damn screwed.
Ah, the familiar mating cry of the pro-nuclear lobbyist.
Come to me babies! I want to screw you (for 20,000 years).
Ah, the familiar mating cry of the Luddite.