Comment 60981

By Brandon (registered) | Posted March 15, 2011 at 12:17:09

Add in the fact that the company running the plants has a history of safety violations and just flat out lying.

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/s...

A sobering quote from the article:

Nuclear plants the world over must be certified for what is called "SQ" or "Seismic Qualification." That is, the owners swear that all components are designed for the maximum conceivable shaking event, be it from an earthquake or an exploding Christmas card from al-Qaeda.

The most inexpensive way to meet your SQ is to lie. The industry does it all the time. The government team I worked with caught them once, in 1988, at the Shoreham plant in New York. Correcting the SQ problem at Shoreham would have cost a cool billion, so engineers were told to change the tests from "failed" to "passed."

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