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MadHound

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Fri Apr-23-10 02:06 PM
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44. And yet at the time it was considered a state of the art design

Yet this human error of design, among other human errors, led to catastrophe.

We're putting our faith in other supposed state of the art designs, yet who knows what sort of human error inherent in these designs will lead to future catastrophe.

Putting all your faith into a computer is also a sure recipe for disaster as well.

Again, you cannot engineer out human error, and while this isn't a major problem with conventional plants or other complex man made systems, once in a great while it leads to disaster when it comes to dealing with nuclear power.

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