Russia Unveils Detailed Plans To Build 21 New Nuclear Power Units By 2030

[PamW]

103. TEPCO - I'll grant you TEPCO

TEPCO - I'll grant you TEPCO.

My remarks, I should say; are limited to US corporations.

The standards set by the NRC are much tighter than what Japan had.
Fukushima couldn't have been licensed in the USA; and I don't know whether it was greed ( Japanese Corps. don't reward CEOs as much as we do in USA ),
or what it was that led to such lax standards at Fukushima.

Maybe it was because they don't reward the CEO as much. The CEOs in the USA have a "good thing" and the last thing someone in that position would want to do is jeopardize that "good thing" by driving the company into non-profitable status. A bad accident will do that. So CEOs in the USA don't "temp fate".

There seems to be a better "espirit de corps" in the USA; the people in the industry want to "do it right".

Perhaps it is because so many came out of Admiral Rickover's Navy. The Navy has a great record with nuclear power. The US Navy has lost 2 nuclear subs; USS Thresher and USS Scorpion; but NEITHER was due to a nuclear accident with the reactor.

The Navy, like NASA; has the "can do" spirit. So perhaps the non-commercial training before going commercial has something to do with it.

In a way, the nuclear industry getting its people from the US Navy mirrors the airlines getting their pilots from the US Air Force.

I haven't seen scrimping in the US nuclear industry.

PamW