Let me tell you from experience working around the globe for 20 years at all sorts of plants, the ones in asia may have some slight safety concers in their designs, but once running and the money coming in, they care less about any safety or people. They are just concerned about the dollar signs in there eyes and trying to catch up with the rest of the world.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

I've noticed that, too. I'm young and was wondering if it is just because I haven't really paid attention to those sorts of things for very long. Another possibility is that because news travels faster today, we hear about more of it, practically in real time.


Lawrenceville, GA

I think Ted's buddy Randy of the "dragster" fame is a nuclear worker. I believe he does plant maintainance. same as you Billy? Those guy would have a far better handle on the likely outlook than we do. All I'm saying is I don't think the sky has fallen......yet.

   Remember, most people thought the world was flat and SBC's were the greatest engine ever, How'd that turn out?

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Yes he did as I recall talking to him a few years ago at columbus.

What these plants do is they design then for say 400 tons per hour, so they buy all the equipment to hande only 400 tons per hr. once started and they make their goal, then they want 125% from the machinery so they are pushing it beyond its rated capacity and beating the crap out of the machinery. if in the original design they would oversize the equipment a little and look towards the future they would save in the long run.

Thats why I hate production managers, they are the ones who push the plants with dollar signs in their eyes, instead of realizing they are running up maintenence cost and creating unexpected shutdowns. They did not watch the tortoise and the hare enough when they were kids. If they would just run the stuff at a steady rate that is not beating the crap out of it, it would go many more miles in the long run.

Its like Ted putting his Y Blocks (had to get some Y related info in here)  on the dyno up to 7500rpm and another one at 4000rpm and just leaving them there, which is going to last longer. Or take 2 new cars get on the highway and hold one petel to the floor, and 1 at just a nice cruising rpm and which is going to get the most mileage. Plain and simple analogy but there isn't a plant in the world that understands this.

Back to the Nuclear subject, on the news here they were showing a graph of a radiation cloud heading to the US and expected to be there on day 6. I don't know what they are saying but just try to make things out by the pictures. I think I am safer than most of you because where I am in the middle of China it has to travel the complete globe before it reaches me.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

Weird or not, but even we had a small eartquake here yesterday just 5 kilometers from us. I didn't even feel or hear it cause I was in car just arriving home. It was only 2.6 by finnish Department of Geosciences and Geography. People said their houses vibrated.

http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=214541

So, you never know what is going to happen. Life is full of surprices

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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i think you guys will be fine we had atomic bomb testing here in the 50's & 60's & the population of oz is fine but just incase america does get radiation we'll send over heaps of vegemite

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

Vegemite should be included to every emergency bag in the states. In any case of possibly coming hazard it should be used as a protective layer on everymans skin

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
www.hollowheads.net (just click the hole in the head to proceed)

One of the USN's procedures is to design everything for 2 or 3 times it's expected maximum output, Where possible. Then it's tested at maximum, but never run that hard again. Also in the Navy, the maintenance procedures are followed to the letter, unless it's impossible under combat conditions. You don't want to be responsible for exceeding the limits or not following a procedure. Trust me on that one.

 Some of the early nuclear powered vessels lasted 50 years before decommissioning, without incident. I read recently that the second Enterprise Carrier steamed close to or just over a million miles, and then was taken out of service.

 Moz, you'd better send your vegamite to Finland, where the'll appreciate the finer things in Aussie cusine.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

hey seppo i never thought of that if you put a layer of vegemite all over your skin no radiation will be able to penetrate the stuff is too thick.

frank after the atomic tests  in the 50's & 60's & australia got radiated we grew a liking to vegemite it wasnt that popular before the bomb tests  so i thought if the radiation made it to the u.s. we could send you guys some cause you'll end up with a taste for it.

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

[quote]Moz (3/21/2011)

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hey seppo i never thought of that if you put a layer of vegemite all over your skin no radiation will be able to penetrate the stuff is too thick.

Moz, then we all could sing mamee, mamee, ala Al Jolsen.

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