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DEATH TO GE. REVOKE GE CORPORATE CHARTER BEFORE GE REVOKES your life with cancer caused by FUK U SHIMA by a reactor they KNEW was FAULTY. 3 GE SCIENTISTS RESIGNED in 1976 Because GE Mark 1 Reactor design unsafe.
32 Mark 1 Reactors now operating in USA plus more in Japan, ie FUK U SHIMA

In 1976 3 GE Scientists quit in protest over flaws in Mark 1 Reactor design

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/16/956868/-In-1976-3-GE-Scientists-quit-in-protest-over-flaws-in-Mark-1-Reactor-design 

Wed Mar 16, 2011 at 01:27 AM PDT

In 1976 3 GE Scientists quit in protest over flaws in Mark 1 Reactor design

by Lefty CoasterFollow

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Five of the six nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power station are boiling water type GE Mark 1. Now we have the revelation that three G.E. scientists who were working on the design of the Mark 1 Reactor quit their jobs over GE's failure to correct the design flaws that have become so disastrously evident at the Fukushima Daiichi power station.

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

Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday's earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s.

"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," Bridenbaugh told ABC News in an interview. "The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release."

I should note that ABC ran this story and not GE owned NBC.


In the 1970s and 1980s GE marketed their Mark 1 reactor to utilities across the U.S. and to countries around the world.

23 US reactors share design with failed Japan nukes
There are 23 nuclear power plants operating in the U.S. using the same General Electric Mark 1 reactors as the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 that suffered a hydrogen explosion on Saturday  and then again early Monday, according to a fact sheet just released by the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a Maryland-based nuclear power watchdog group.

This design,  a General Electric Mark I, has been criticized by nuclear experts and even Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff for decades as being susceptible to explosion and containment failure.

And where are these 23 reactors?

FACTBOX-U.S. nuclear plants similar to Japan plant in peril
GE has rolled out several versions of the Mark 1, and some
of the U.S. reactors could be slightly different than the
Daiichi Unit 1 reactor.

Reactor                  Location         Size (MW)   Year
Browns Ferry 1     Decatur, AL           1065        1974
Browns Ferry 2     Decatur, AL           1104        1975
Browns Ferry 3     Decatur, AL           1105        1977
Brunswick 1          Southport, NC         938        1976
Brunswick 2          Southport, NC         920        1975
Cooper                 Nebraska City, NE   770         1974
Dresden 2            Morris, IL                  867        1970
Dresden 3            Morris, IL                  867        1971
Duane Arnold       Cedar Rapids, IA      580        1975
Hatch 1                Baxley, GA                876        1975
Hatch 2                Baxley, GA                883        1979
Fermi 2                Monroe, MI              1122        1988
Hope Creek         Hancock's Brdg, NJ   1161        1986
Fitzpatrick            Oswego, NY               854        1976
Monticello             Monticello, MN           572        1971
Nine Mile Point 1   Oswego, NY              621        1969
Oyster Creek        Toms River, NJ           615        1969
Peach Bottom 2     Lancaster, PA         1112        1974
Peach Bottom 3     Lancaster, PA         1112        1974
Pilgrim                    Plymouth, MA           685        1972
Quad Cities 1         Moline, IL                 867        1972
Quad Cities 2         Moline, IL                 867        1972
Vermont Yankee     Vernon, VT              620        1972
Fortunately none of these Mark 1 Reactors is located in America's most seismically active areas along the edge of the Pacific Plate. A part of the Ring of Fire that just shattered parts of Japan.

UPDATE:

This come from a New York Times article published today that was pointed out in one of the comments:

Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness in Design of Stricken Reactor
In 1972, Stephen H. Hanauer, then a safety official with the Atomic Energy Commission, recommended that the Mark 1 system be discontinued because it presented unacceptable safety risks. Among the concerns cited was the smaller containment design, which was more susceptible to explosion and rupture from a buildup in hydrogen — a si
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