Another black eye for GA

Recently, Tom Sixkiller posted:

"Neil Gould" wrote in message
ink.net...

Poor maintenance in a government run/regulated facility?

The nuclear plants in Ohio are run by private companies, just as
other utilities. I suspect that many, if not most plants are owned
and operated by private utilities.

Yes...., but you don't mean to infer they just slide down the road
with _no_ oversight, do you?

If whatever "oversight" that is imposed is insufficient to detect
situations that can lead to catastrophic failures, then what does it
matter? The nature of the problem with this particular plant was such that
failure, averted only by luck AFAICT, could have killed far more people
than any terrorist act in history and rendered hundreds of thousands of
square miles of land useless for the foreseeable future.

I don't wish to be misunderstood... I am not against nuclear power. I *am*
very much against the deregulation of utilities (too late, though). And
I'm not under any illusions that our best interests are being protected in
any way by the way things are being done.

Neil

Neil Gould wrote:

The nature of the problem with this particular plant was such that
failure, averted only by luck AFAICT, could have killed far more people
than any terrorist act in history and rendered hundreds of thousands of
square miles of land useless for the foreseeable future.

Really? How? Are you under the impression that commercial nukes can explode?

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote:

Really? How? Are you under the impression that commercial nukes can
explode?

I've always been under the impression that they certainly could, though
not in the same way a nuclear weapon does, i. e. a chain reaction
fission event.

Wasn't a mechanical pressure explosion possible, with the resultant
widespread release of radioactive material?
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM
(remove pants to reply by email)