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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
The PWR design provides less opportunity for the management to create problems, and makes their 85% smaller in number.
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That's a concept for all technologies. The idea is to constantly innovate. Learn from experience. Even upgrade first generation plants (PWR or BWR) so that problems require less assumptions and less management decisions.
One need only view the automobile. As it becomes more complex, knowledge, decisions, and actions performed by a driver to keep a car running have become massively less. A driver no longer adjusts spark plug timing.
Nine Mile Point plant has been modified so that external pumps can be connected directly to a reactor from outside. A modification made because they learned from Fukishima. Similar to a standpipe for every commercial building. So that portable pumps (ie fire truck) can connect water directly inside the building (or reactor) without any planning or attachments.
In the case of reactor 3, nobody knew a small pump's check valve would remain open. Reactor 3 needed at least 300 tons of water to avert a meltdown. It only got maybe 180 tons of the 400 pumped in. Due to complexity (and other factors such as no lights and high radioactivity), operators could not know of their mistake.
If top management does up front planning, then unforseen problems do not become disasters. If top management had tested passive cooling (as management does in Nine Mile Point every four years), then a Reactior 1 meltdown (on 12 Mar 2011) probably would have been averted. And management would not have erroneously assumed (and told operators) that two passive cooling systems were working.
Primary purpose of a third generation nuclear reactor is to make the system even more fool proof. To make mistakes even less likely. Mistakes will always happen. Unfortunately, top management must understand the number one reason why a most fool proof plant still creates a disaster: top management.
How does any system get fixed when management obfuscates facts? Exactly why informed (and therefore patriotic) citizens listen and learn from the news. Those on 15 Mar 2011 who still believed TEPCO myths must learn from their mistakes. Learn why they were so easily deceived by spin and lies when facts that clearly indicated meltdowns had occurred.
Read this discussion back then. Each reader should ask whether they saw the facts or were easily deceived back then.
Japan should learn, from their NHK reports, of ongoing obfuscation or coverups. Every American should also learn whether their knowledge and information came from responsible sources.
Goes right back to Saddam's WMDs. Notice how few bothered to stand up for the American soldier. How few tried to protect lives of American servicemen by identifying spin or outright lies from George Jr's administration. Almost 5000 died because so many Americans did not do their job as citizens. Unfortunately too many still did not learn from history. Did not learn what is necessary for any layman to have informed knowledge. Did not learn both who and why is the source of most disasters.
Fukishima is another event in history so that everyone can learn how reality works and how to avert future failures.
BTW, probably not obvious. This also addresses another topic about
socialism vs communism vs capitalism.