On 09 Aug 2011 01:52:48 GMT, Han wrote:

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:4e406b92$0$27968
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Bottom line with nuke plants:

One design or operational (1) screw up is three (3) too many.

The risks are simply too large at this point in time.

OHMIGOD! Poor Lew. His aluminum hat has evidently fallen off again.


Remember the Air France plane that disappeared over the Middle Atlantic
some time back? On its way from Brazil, it ran into bad weather. The
pilots were not too experienced/trained, and didn't read the
malfunctioning pitot tube(s) speed indicators with enough suspicion.
Those pitot tubes were KNOWN to be prone to icing up. As a result, they
pointed the nose up, not down, and stalled the plane into the ocean. A

A 35,000' drop is an awful lot for a stall without any recovery.
I have to question that conclusion. Got a cite for it? If nothing
else, even a fairly newly licensed pilot would have a better feel for
pitch attitude than that would indicate.


clear example of a known defect, that normally doesn't result in really
bad things, but, obviously, here it did. The same with nukes. There are
a number of known bad things in design of the totality of some of the
plants and nobody does anything until it is too late. Certainly with
Chernobyl and Fukushima (sp?). That does NOT mean nukes are inherently
bad, just that some things with some nukes are bad, and should be fixed.

Absolutely, dear sir.


As has been pointed out before, more coal workers have died per year than
all the people who have died from nuke accidents.

Cars, coal, stairs, pools. The list is quite large.

--
We are always the same age inside.
-- Gertrude Stein