http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10148/look-ma-no-fire-protection A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Fri, 16 May 2008 03:44:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10148/look-ma-no-fire-protection#comment-36020 Twenty Years Ago Today « MaisonBisson.com Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:05:53 +0000 /?p=10148#comment-36020 [...] Because of the need for power, the remaining reactors of Chernobyl NPP were kept in operation until 2000, and and even now there are 12 RBMK reactors like those at Chernobyl in operation in Russia and Lithuania. Safety (and training, I hope) is said to have improved. Westron, a joint venture between Westinghouse and Hartron, is bringing Western-style safety systems to Eastern European power plants, even though they often get paid in IOUs. (Sadly, â??Western-style safetyâ? may not mean what it used to. Practice here.) [...] [...] Because of the need for power, the remaining reactors of Chernobyl NPP were kept in operation until 2000, and and even now there are 12 RBMK reactors like those at Chernobyl in operation in Russia and Lithuania. Safety (and training, I hope) is said to have improved. Westron, a joint venture between Westinghouse and Hartron, is bringing Western-style safety systems to Eastern European power plants, even though they often get paid in IOUs. (Sadly, â??Western-style safetyâ? may not mean what it used to. Practice here.) [...]

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