2011-03-14, 10:02 PM
Kalovale Wrote:You're seriously saying you know better than people in the job that requires the most careful planning in the whole wide world? I'm not expert in one field, let alone the combination of the others, but I think it's fair to leave this kind of stuff to the people who know what they're doing and not wreck a mess about it. They managed to cold shutdown the reactors with NO contamination spread. I would say they did well.
Of course they should have scrapped the reactors and made new ones (which may or may not have survived this incident) three years ago just because someone wanted them to, and the blame is on them for not taking that presumably negative cost-effective course of action jussssst because it was ratified that the reactors could go for another decade after inspection. They still did well enough to preserve the safety of the large in the problem at hand, at present.
Blame could be distributed later where due.
If they knew what they where doing then why did they ignore warnings and allow these power plants to remain in use as they where having to suffer from earthquakes at least twice as strong as they where designed to handle? Sounds to me like you are giving so called "experts" too much credit.
Your second paragraph created yet another strawman from your inability to read. Ishibashi Katsuhiko said, "Unless radical steps are taken now to reduce the vulnerability of nuclear power plants to earthquakes, Japan could experience a true nuclear catastrophe in the near future."
He never said that we should take down the plants.
Also, I dont see why cost-effectiveness should be used as an excuse to avoid impementing necessary features that could potentially save lives.
@above: apparently so: http://blogs.forbes.com/jeremybogaisky/2...ear-plant/
Although, I thought number 3 was cold shut down according to someone's earlier source. I'll probably look into it tomorrow. I need to get some rest now.
Edit: http://abcnews.go.com/International/japa...d=13131123
"In addition, the fuel rods in the reactor were melting, the official said, though the situation was not described as a meltdown. "
This might explain why I thoughtI heard 3 was shut down...
"The explosion, which occurred at 6:10 a.m., came shortly after the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were shut down. "
Seriously... there is a lot of conflicting info out there.