[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[DaveFroble]

JF Mezei wrote:
>> Tim Streater wrote:
>>
>>> If the Japanese panicked and made a mess of the unnecessary evacuation
>>> that's hardly the fault of nuclear power. The problem is that people
>>> have been lied to about the scale of the danger.
> 
> The biggest error was to shut down the reactor, with expectation that
> external power would continue to allow the shutdown and cooling of
> reactor. Had the reactor not shut down, they would have had internal
> power to continue to run the reactor safely even if disconnected from
> the rest of the grid and external diseel generators inop due to flood.

I'm going to go out on a limb here.  Not claiming I'm correct.

I have a suspicion that the plant operators didn't request help in a timely 
manner.  Possibly not wanting to "lose face"?  I've got to believe that if the 
plant management called the government and said they needed generators right now 
that the government could have gotten them the needed generators.

As far as that goes, companies and countries that have nuclear plants should 
have contingency plans, and equipment that could be moved where needed quickly. 
  Obviously, this didn't happen.  And obviously this is hindsight.

New plants are designed to have gravity alone deliver water when needed.

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