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http://time.com/107403/from-fat-trains-to-collapsing-bridges-8-famous-engineering-mistakes/
it was documented in time magazine for posterity. surprisingly, it included the french for having their world class trains too wide to fit between track lines and station platforms. i remember seeing a video footage of the suspension bridge in seattle falling apart in moderate wind conditions and the luggage handling fiasco in denver international airport. also surprising are the japs and their sinking kanasai, oops i mean kansai, airport.
the most disastrous and faulty architecture and design not included in the time archive of the top 8 has to go to the japs for coming out with not one but multiple nuclear reactors at a single location at a coast off fukushima facing a historically well-known and well-studied seismic hotspot of 8-9 level earthquakes and 30m tsunamis of tectonic proportions. not only that, their electric power backup (for cooling) comprised of diesel generators sitting aside each nuclear reactor, oblivious in design to the effects of being inundated and rendered useless by water, which ironically was all around the plant (just in case shit hits the fan and they need the ocean to quench and dilute the disaster - a case of double comedy). worse, the next electric power backup was only one lousy high voltage ac transmission line from the power grid, and the pylons carrying that line and sections of that grid were subjected to earthquake damage at best or destruction at worst. why couldn't they have at least quadruple redundancy (2+2) of this important traditional power grid segment for this one particular site?
what were the japs thinking? now they are paying for the flaws with a site that is spewing radiation and uncontainable for centuries to cum. and the area around it and the ocean next to it are simply inhabitable and hazardous to all lifeforms. and the west coast of the america is starting to detect higher levels of radiation from 8000 miles away.
this one manmade disaster and series of engineering flaws pales only in comparison to the chernobyl charade which continues to haunt and mutate folks, lifestock and animals near the arctic region. as far as norway is still feeling the effects of radiation to this day.
it was documented in time magazine for posterity. surprisingly, it included the french for having their world class trains too wide to fit between track lines and station platforms. i remember seeing a video footage of the suspension bridge in seattle falling apart in moderate wind conditions and the luggage handling fiasco in denver international airport. also surprising are the japs and their sinking kanasai, oops i mean kansai, airport.
the most disastrous and faulty architecture and design not included in the time archive of the top 8 has to go to the japs for coming out with not one but multiple nuclear reactors at a single location at a coast off fukushima facing a historically well-known and well-studied seismic hotspot of 8-9 level earthquakes and 30m tsunamis of tectonic proportions. not only that, their electric power backup (for cooling) comprised of diesel generators sitting aside each nuclear reactor, oblivious in design to the effects of being inundated and rendered useless by water, which ironically was all around the plant (just in case shit hits the fan and they need the ocean to quench and dilute the disaster - a case of double comedy). worse, the next electric power backup was only one lousy high voltage ac transmission line from the power grid, and the pylons carrying that line and sections of that grid were subjected to earthquake damage at best or destruction at worst. why couldn't they have at least quadruple redundancy (2+2) of this important traditional power grid segment for this one particular site?
what were the japs thinking? now they are paying for the flaws with a site that is spewing radiation and uncontainable for centuries to cum. and the area around it and the ocean next to it are simply inhabitable and hazardous to all lifeforms. and the west coast of the america is starting to detect higher levels of radiation from 8000 miles away.
this one manmade disaster and series of engineering flaws pales only in comparison to the chernobyl charade which continues to haunt and mutate folks, lifestock and animals near the arctic region. as far as norway is still feeling the effects of radiation to this day.
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