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Old 04-10-2009, 01:50 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
However, a "Chernobyl"-type accident could not happen at these plants, because the safety systems cannot be manually disabled, as was done at Chernobyl.
One variant of Murphy's law is "Any system designed to not fail, will."

An extension of that is "The probability of failure on any safety system is directly proportional to the potential damage caused by such failure.”
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