Uncle Sam: Wants YOU to Buy Defeative Nuke Reactors

Safety questions about the Mark I model nuclear reactors that are burning out of control in Japan were first raised years ago in the U.S., by the nation's top nuclear safety official and by the General Electric engineers who helped design them. In 1976, three of GE's engineers, including Dale Bridenbaugh, resigned over concerns that the reactors' containment vessels couldn't withstand the massive steam pressure that would build if a major accident disabled the cooling system. In interviews with McClatchy on Thursday, 17 March 2011 Bridenbaugh said that the steel containment system wasn't strong enough and the inner, light bulb-shaped reactor vessel was too small - "It was 10 pounds in a five-pound bag" - to contain all that pressure in such an event. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan use the Mark I design, as do 23 of the 104 reactors in the U.S. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/17/2120732/safety-of-japanese-reactors-questioned.html#ixzz1GvJD0UhN

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