Sunday, March 13, 2011

Drudge Reports Six Reactor Failures: Past Performance indicates Future Failure

Most or all of the early failed Fukushima reactors were GE supplied as stated earlier. The others were supplied by Hitachi and Toshiba. But look no further than the union between GE and Hitachi as GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to realize they're not truly independent.

Meanwhile, given the serious nature of the events, the media coverage is criminal.

GE Boiling Water Reactors are and were also found at nearby Vermont Yankee (current license renewal refused), and Millstone I in Connecticut (closed in 1998).

Early construction of the Fukushima facilities was mostly by GE and the Electric Bond and Share Company that built them was sold to incompetent Raytheon by GE in 1993.

Their Patriot Missile was widely found to be a absolute failure after review, once the 1991 cheering and lying ended. It engaged phantom targets, and failed when there were targets.


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From the GAO:

Because of a software problem in the Patriot missile defense system, the Patriot battery at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, failed to track and intercept an incoming Iraqi Scud missile that later struck an Army barracks, killing 28 Americans. The computer problem led to an inaccurate tracking calculation that became worse the longer the system operated. At the time of the incident, the battery had been operating continuously for more than 100 hours. By then, the inaccuracy was serious enough to cause the system to look in the wrong place for the incoming Scud. The Patriot had never before defended against a Scud missile nor was it expected to operate continuously for long periods of time. Two weeks before the incident, Army officials received Israeli data indicating some loss in accuracy after the system had been running for eight consecutive hours. Consequently, Army officials modified the software to improve the system's accuracy. The modified software did not reach Dhahran, however, until February 26, 1991--the day after the Scud episode.

GAO found that: (1) the Patriot battery at Dhahran failed to track and intercept a Scud missile due to a software problem in the system's weapons control computer; (2) the software problem caused an inaccurate tracking calculation which became worse the longer the system operated; (3) at the time of the incident, the battery had operated continuously for over 100 hours and the inaccuracy was serious enough to cause the system to look in the wrong place for the incoming Scud; (4) two weeks before the incident, Army officials received Israeli data indicating some loss in accuracy after the system had been running for 8 consecutive hours; (5) the Army had never used the Patriot to defend against tactical ballistic missiles or expected the Patriot to operate continuously for long periods of time; and (6) Army officials modified the software, but the new software did not reach Dhahran until the day after the incident.

It did make some thieving Massachusetts residents into wealthy engineers, though. It was just lives and more collateral damage as it is in Japan.

Raytheon liars helped drive hams off 440 MHz citing imaginary interference that didn't plague PAVE PAWS until it became a redundant relic that had co-existed peacefully on both coasts through 35 years of serious missile surveillance.

To prove their point they even concocted a ham radio club and requested a license to run their biased and crooked tests on 440 MHz.

The hams responsible there should be ostracized for the money they cost everyone alone.

As for the American media, they bleat and bleat about licensing nuclear plants, but when six reactors fail, they have little to say... except Drudge and Alex Jones.

This is because all the suppliers of the reactors are major advertisers on American Globalist controlled media, including the Japanese companies.


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