Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest

Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In ProtestDamaged Japanese nuclear plant has five Mark 1 reactors. March 15, 2011 — -- 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 c

[ashigaru]

GEでMk1原子炉を設計してた人が、水素爆発の危険があるといって1970年代に抗議のため辞職してた件について。

[mkusunok]

Mark Iって福島に限らず結構残ってるんだっけ？

[Soreda]

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

[isrc]

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.