Agreed -- WordPerfect was (and arguably still is) better than Word. I hate Word with a passion. Getting consistent indenting with lists on Word is just torturous. Even after I spend time setting up all the properties (indents, tab stops, etc) correctly, word still fucks up. I hate it.
How about blaming poor design decisions? ALL of the generators in the BASEMENT next to the OCEAN. Sounds like a good plan to exactly whom?
Not exactly sure what your point is? Six of twelve of the generators were damaged by flood waters. The other 6 were perfectly fine, but it was the distribution panels that were damaged by the flood waters. Just like the distribution panels on the ground floor were destroyed by the tidal wave. Maybe next time they should float everything in the air.
Oh, and Nuclear plants are built next to the ocean (and other bodies of water) for a REASON. But I guess you're smarter than all the engineers and architects who build these plants for a living.
How about the FAILURE of TEPCO to change out the electrically activated hydrogen filters for passive ones, like some their engineers and a bunch of outside consultants suggested years ago?
Hydrogen filters? Not exactly sure what you're referring to. I think you're referring to the hydrogen pressure release valves at the top of the reactor vents, which caused the explosions. Yeah, they could have change them out -- but it wouldn't have made a difference in the grand scheme of things. You would have eliminated the explosions, but you still would have vented hazardous materials into the air.... because there was no cooling -- which was the serious problem.
How about FAILURE of TEPCO and the Japanese Government to update their geologic risk assessment despite recommendations from internal and external staff on multiple occasions.
.... and how would that of changed anything?.... yeah, didn't think it would.
Yep, the symptoms of systems failure in design and planning.
"systems failure in design and planning" -- hmmm... get back to me next time you design an industrial process plant.
Oh, and FWIW -- it wasn't a failure of the plant's operating systems, nor their backup systems. As the article describes -- every single one of the plant's failsafe mechanisms and backup systems performed flawlessly.
If the article wanted to be honest, it would have read "The disaster at Fukushima was caused by the tidal waves which took out the plant's emergency systems" or something similar.
At 3:27 p.m. the first tsunami wave surged into the man-made harbor protecting Fukushima Dai-ichi, rushing past a tidal gauge that measured a water height of 4 meters above normal. At 3:35 another set of much higher waves rolled in and obliterated the gauge. The water rushed over the seawalls and swept toward the plant. It smashed into the seawater pumps used in the heat-removal systems, then burst open the large doors on the turbine buildings and submerged power panels that controlled the operation of pumps, valves, and other equipment. Weeks later, TEPCO employees would measure the water stains on the buildings and estimate the monstrous tsunami's height at 14 meters.
In the basements of turbine and reactor buildings, 6 of the 12 diesel generators shuddered to a halt as the floodwaters inundated them. Five other generators cut out when their power distribution panels were drenched. Only one generator, on the first floor of a building near unit 6, kept going; unlike the others, all of its equipment was above the water line. Reactor 6 and its sister unit, reactor 5, would weather the crisis without serious damage, thanks in part to that generator.
Blame the sea walls if you want, or the tidal wave, or the earthquake. But the disaster was not caused by a failure of the plants operating systems. The failure of the systems was only a symptom.
Typically when you're talking about an Industrial Process, the "Operating System" is not a computer OS (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc). But rather, the actual system process (pumping water, generating electricity, etc) that is operating.
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Agreed -- WordPerfect was (and arguably still is) better than Word. I hate Word with a passion. Getting consistent indenting with lists on Word is just torturous. Even after I spend time setting up all the properties (indents, tab stops, etc) correctly, word still fucks up. I hate it.
How about blaming poor design decisions? ALL of the generators in the BASEMENT next to the OCEAN. Sounds like a good plan to exactly whom?
Not exactly sure what your point is? Six of twelve of the generators were damaged by flood waters. The other 6 were perfectly fine, but it was the distribution panels that were damaged by the flood waters. Just like the distribution panels on the ground floor were destroyed by the tidal wave. Maybe next time they should float everything in the air. Oh, and Nuclear plants are built next to the ocean (and other bodies of water) for a REASON. But I guess you're smarter than all the engineers and architects who build these plants for a living.
How about the FAILURE of TEPCO to change out the electrically activated hydrogen filters for passive ones, like some their engineers and a bunch of outside consultants suggested years ago?
Hydrogen filters? Not exactly sure what you're referring to. I think you're referring to the hydrogen pressure release valves at the top of the reactor vents, which caused the explosions. Yeah, they could have change them out -- but it wouldn't have made a difference in the grand scheme of things. You would have eliminated the explosions, but you still would have vented hazardous materials into the air.... because there was no cooling -- which was the serious problem.
How about FAILURE of TEPCO and the Japanese Government to update their geologic risk assessment despite recommendations from internal and external staff on multiple occasions.
.... and how would that of changed anything? .... yeah, didn't think it would.
Yep, the symptoms of systems failure in design and planning.
"systems failure in design and planning" -- hmmm... get back to me next time you design an industrial process plant.
What does that say about the wisdom of building terrestrial nuclear power plants?
We need to build a impenetrable force field around every power plant?
At 3:27 p.m. the first tsunami wave surged into the man-made harbor protecting Fukushima Dai-ichi, rushing past a tidal gauge that measured a water height of 4 meters above normal. At 3:35 another set of much higher waves rolled in and obliterated the gauge. The water rushed over the seawalls and swept toward the plant. It smashed into the seawater pumps used in the heat-removal systems, then burst open the large doors on the turbine buildings and submerged power panels that controlled the operation of pumps, valves, and other equipment. Weeks later, TEPCO employees would measure the water stains on the buildings and estimate the monstrous tsunami's height at 14 meters.
In the basements of turbine and reactor buildings, 6 of the 12 diesel generators shuddered to a halt as the floodwaters inundated them. Five other generators cut out when their power distribution panels were drenched. Only one generator, on the first floor of a building near unit 6, kept going; unlike the others, all of its equipment was above the water line. Reactor 6 and its sister unit, reactor 5, would weather the crisis without serious damage, thanks in part to that generator.
Blame the sea walls if you want, or the tidal wave, or the earthquake. But the disaster was not caused by a failure of the plants operating systems. The failure of the systems was only a symptom.
Typically when you're talking about an Industrial Process, the "Operating System" is not a computer OS (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc). But rather, the actual system process (pumping water, generating electricity, etc) that is operating.