Reply #60: Actually, they ignored the warnings of three of the design teams engineers, [View All]

[grahamhgreen]

so they are absolutely at fault and ALL of their assets should be used in this cleanup, if needed.

An organization that is pushing for unsafe nuclear energy that can end in situations similar to GE/Fukushima, should have it's corporate charter pulled. At the very least they should pay for the entire cleanup and be liable for criminal prosecution.


"ABC - Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientists To Quit In Protest"

"Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.

Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday's earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s.

"The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant," Bridenbaugh told ABC News in an interview. "The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release."

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fukushima-mark-nuclear-reactor-design-caused-ge-scientist/story?id=13141287


On edit: Furthermore, it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that putting your backup generators in the basement and your containment pools 7 stories into the air was the opposite of proper design for an earthquake/tsunami zone.