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Jeff Thies

On 4/3/2011 8:03 PM, wrote:
On Apr 3, 11:50 am, Jeff wrote:
On 4/3/2011 9:14 AM, wrote:

On Apr 2, 4:26 pm, Jeff wrote:
On 3/30/2011 7:49 AM, HeyBub wrote:

Higgs Boson wrote:
On Mar 29, 9:46 am, bob wrote:
Once GE gewts hit with all the lawsuits over the japanese reactor
there will be no profits to pay taxes on, GE will end up in
bankruptcy.

Their cheaper reactor the buyers got what they paid for

I gotta say that, according to what's coming out now, the Japanese
engineers/geologists/other specialists were using very, very, very old
data when planning and siting these reactors. Nobody had properly
studied the history of earthquakes going back over 1,000 years.

It was known. There was data that tsunamis had swept as far as 2 miles
inland near that location. That data was discarded as being too old to
be "reliable".

This was revisited not too long ago and the Tsunami risk wasn't even
looked into.

This

is just plain inexcusable. Not that GE isn't at fault too for their
criminal greed, but the Japanese had a duty to study the geology and
earthquake history of these areas before committing to the cheap-o GE
product.

What greed? What cheap-o product? The reactors performed exactly - or almost
exactly - as they were designed. They shut themselves down properly and so
forth.

Actually they didn't shut down properly. Unit One ran into trouble early
on and it was designed with a passive cooling loop to the condensor. It
should have been fine for some time with no power. The rest of them also
had troubles shutting down. The only thing that did function properly
was the control rods.

Here we go again. The information coming out of Japan has been
sketchy
at best and frequently wrong. Yet our resident armchair nulcear
expert knows
exactly what happened. Obviously totally ignorant and biased.

And you aren't?

That's right, I'm not the one jumping to conclusions, conjuring up
every tidbit
of crap off the internet as if it had direct bearing on the nuclear
accident,]

I posted bits from the NRC among others. I let you draw your own
conclusions.

telling people the specifics of how the reactors didn't shudown
properly.

I said no such things.

But, clearly they have not shut down properly.

Every nuclear "expert" I've seen in the mainstream media freely admits
that we really don't know much about the exact sequence of events.

Then you need to stop getting all your news from television.

You
on the other are a real sexual intellectual, if a f**g know it all.

Oooh.

Any

reasonable person knows that only after a full investigation by
experts
will we know what happened, what the sequence of events were, and
what went wrong.

I never said there wouldn't be, or shouldn't be.

I can take you back to a post where you implied that.

You read a lot in that only exists in your mind.

And you have yet to disprove anything I've said. Or even attempt to do
anything but shoot the messenger.

Why is your reasoning limited to that?

My reasoning was laid out for you in my post above, which you edited
away
because you prefer it disapper.

It was completely irrelevant. Nukes != Airlines.

It goes like this. Reasonable, intelligent people know that just
like with an aircraft accident investigation, it takes a long process
that a
year or more before experts can figure out what happened.

A million widely scattered bits of airplane parts blown to hell is not
easy to put together. Reactors != Airplanes.

In fact there is a lot that can be told just by what nucleids are being
formed, it's an ongoing story. It's rather well documented. It's all
rather well documented. A little hard to find, but it's there.
Everything from the Tepco bulletins on out. Not by some talking head on
TV, but online. It's the new age of information.

But, the
above
sentence exclude people like you, ie armchair experts that know what
happened right here and now. You focus on some eyewitness reports
that claim the engines were on fire.

I mentioned no such thing.

Then you go find some crap on
the internet from some hippy disgruntled employee that quit 30 yea
ago and try desperately; to tie that back in to the accident.

Complete nonsense on your part.

I've found a few tidbits here and there I haven't posted because of a
lack of interest. Did you know that the spent fuel pools have a side
door(s) sealed with an inflatable seal? Or that the control rods which
come from under the reactor are sealed with graphite plugs?

Why the hell would I or anyone else here care?

You only seem to care about killing the spread of information. Why is that?

Until we have expert
analysis of what went wrong, the exact sequence of events, it matters
not a wit.

The sequence of events is a cluster ****. The fallback safety system is
spraying sea water in the fire extinguisher lines. That is absurd. Tepco
is trying to hire "runners" for $5k/day to run into a highly radioactive
environment and do a small job. 4 weeks out they haven't been able to
restart either cooling system. The number 4 spent fuel pool is obviously
leaking.

There, more information than you are comfortable dealing with.

I have a great deal of respect for Thomas Edison's company, always
have. They completely changed the design in the Mark 2.

Who the hell cares.

Anyone with a Mark 1 reactor that hasn't been updated should. Germany
has or is taking theirs offline.

Intel has completely changed the design of the
current
generation of processors from the 8088. Does that make them bad or
prove anything?

It's not that the technology is so much better it's that lessons have
been learned. From your own stupid example, would you want to fly on a
Wright Flyer?

Now, pop away with your insults. It does make you feel better.

You're a stupid ass, does that help?

Did it help you? Do you work for GE?

Jeff