Japan victim of ‘US nuclear disaster’…~I say a tad bit overstated as GE is now GLOBAL….

~it’s a whole new world out there and we have to remember that…The number 1 plant was due to retire in a week… I’m not certain that any plant built on a fault line could withstand what these did…however the new plants have been vastly improved upon so don’t everyone go *nuclear* so to speak…we need some kind of energy to run big business or we might as well shut everything down…think about it…However~ We desperately need to replace a number of our plants here at home…And remember that France is 90% powered with nuclear power from the same company and in all the years has only had one very small contained leak…they actually sell power to other countries!!! ~jude

The US-based company General Electric was forewarned of the critical engineering flaws in its water-cooled nuclear reactors which are currently in danger of undergoing a catastrophic meltdown in Japan.

During the initial engineering of the nuclear reactor over 35 years ago, concerns were raised that the cooling system would not withstand a severe accident, following with the resignation of three GE employees, ABC News reported.

“They went back and re-analyzed the loads the structures might receive and beefed up the ability of the containment to handle greater loads,” says Dale G. Bridenbaugh, one of the three resigned engineers, adding that “the [new version] Mark 1 is still a little more susceptible to an accident that would result in a loss of containment.”

General Electric designed all six reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and is the only builder of boiling-water-reactors in the world.

Military publicist from Russian newspaper Zavtra, Vladislav Shurygin, believes that “Today we are not dealing with a Japanese nuclear catastrophe, despite the whole world watching developments in Japan and everyone knowing about Fukushima. In fact, it’s an American nuclear disaster. All four reactors hit by explosions were built by the American General Electric Company. Moreover, the plant was constructed and designed mainly by American experts.”

“Japan itself doesn’t produce any reactors and the country is forbidden to engage in any nuclear power research. So, we are witnessing a drama of the American energy industry despite it happening on Japanese territory,” Shurygin concludes.

GMA/MGH

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