Re: Is New Orleans finished ?

Hello Jim,

And an engineer will know there is rarely a PERFECT solution,but will
accept the best he can do to achieve the primary goal.He WEIGHS the problems chances.

Not perfect but with a residual risk level that allows one to sleep at
night.

You must NEVER get any sleep,then.

I do. Because I do not compromise on safety matters. And yes, I have made clear statements as to "either we design in this safety feature or I am not going to do it for you". We did not lose a single contract because of that but these clients now have defibrillator safe gear. So after the rules change they don't have to redesign. Also, they never had to worry about a heavily over-worked and stressed cardiologist panicking and failing to disconnect before using the paddles. I am certain you would appreciate that fact if you were a patient some day.

This certainly is not the case WRT to spent nuclear fuel disposal.
Only in the anti-nuke crowd's opinion.

Has nothing to do with anti-nuke crowds, of which I am not a part.

The stuff has to get WET before it can leach out.

Which it eventually will. 

You seem very certain of this.

I lived in Germany and NL where I have seen images of ground storage containers that were supposed to be highly corrosion resistant. Turned out they were but not for decades.

Better than the tax loads from having it spread out all over the US,with much less security,or the tax loads from evacuating areas where terrorists spread hot nuclear wastes.

I never said that was a solution. We have to find a method of recycling. In France EDF tries to do that. I don't know how anything else is going to work in the long run.

And -you- talk about risk levels....you have NO clue.

As someone who has to live with it and has to take responsibility about the burden we place on future generations I do look and talk about risk levels. I expect solid answers regarding this matter from the folks running the plants. This is certainly not asking too much.

I am not a chemical engineer. Still I had serious concerns when they mandated oxygenators into CA gas and picked MTBE. "Trust the scientists who know, yada, yada, yada". Sure enough it did leach and turn into a huge problem. Many decision maker's reaction to that was "oh s..t".

Agree. However, a technology can only be embraced for release when
all aspects have been solved and not merely postponed until maybe
some day we'll figure it out. 

No,that is definitely NOT TRUE. It's unrealistic,and utopian.
If that were the case in REAL LIFE,we'd still be in the Stone Age.

If YOU worked that way,you would be unemployed very quickly.

You probably haven't worked in medical electronics, aeronautics or a field like that.

Oh,one has to work in certain fields to express opinions or know about things? Are you saying that if one has not worked in certain fields,that one has no vote in any matter? That one has to have experience in whatever topic they are discussing,otherwise they should just shut up?

Read again. That's not what I said. You are free to voice your opinion just like everyone else. I was merely pointing out fields where a rather lax approach towards design validation isn't working. After about 20 years in med I do know about that stuff.

I note that there's a recall right now for some medical electronic device,there are ads about it on TV. Are you saying that there are never any recalls and all medical devices have been engineered after looking at "all aspects"???

When did I say that? Sure there are recalls, accidents, mishaps. The pacemakers you seem to be referring to or the structural failures of the Comet jetliners are examples of that. However, if you look at med or aero you will notice that such things happens far less frequently than in other sectors. For good reason. And when there are mishaps it is often determined by investigators that proper procedure hadn't been followed.

Face it,you are just trying futilely to make any excuse to not have nuclear power. 

Huh? I wrote "Agree" to this statement of yours:

Nuclear power is much cleaner and safer overall than the fossil fuel energy producers.

So how do you figure I am against nuclear power? I am not. I believe that we should research this matter a lot more, especially find solutions for spent fuel and then turn nuclear generation into a solid energy source.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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