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Re: lochbaum on nuke plant aging
Norm provided a Dave Lochbaum article that listed many plant system failures due to
"assumed aging." The correlation therefore is that since there is aging, that all units
should be shutdown. Based on this philosophy, I assume that UCS also demands
that all mechanical systems that obviously age, should also be shutdown? Recently
we had the American Airline Airbus 300 crash, due to a composite tail (most likely
cause) that crashed after aging. We also had the TWA 747 crash a few years ago
due to wear around wiring insulation. We have other example similar to this, in all
forms of transportation. Homes age and fires are caused by wiring wear. So, do we
all shutdown these other components as well? In the single Airbus crash, more
people have died in just 1 moment than in all of the years of private and government
run nuclear programs in the USA. I would venture to speculate that this is still true
considering all of the world nuclear units.
If UCS is so concerned about prevention of death and destruction, I wonder why they
don't tackle a "real" problem, where there can be a demonstrable positive effect?
Perhaps they simply like to run on the "fear factor".
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