Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Our systems are failsafe

From today's New York Times, apropos of the meltdown at Fukushima:
Michael Tetuan, a spokesman for G.E.’s water and power division, staunchly defended the technology this week, calling it “the industry’s workhorse with a proven track record of safety and reliability for more than 40 years.”

Mr. Tetuan said there are currently 32 Mark 1 boiling water reactors operating safely around the globe. “There has never been a breach of a Mark 1 containment system,” he said.


From Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
...General Jack D. Ripper has sent B52s to drop H-bombs on targets inside the USSR... Dialogue ensues in the War Room
...
Muffley: General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you assured me there was no possibility of such a thing ever occurring!
Turgidson: Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

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