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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (415187)5/19/2011 12:30:45 PM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
U.S. Was Warned on Vents Before Failure at Japan’s Plant

By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: May 18, 2011

WASHINGTON — Five years before the crucial emergency vents at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were disabled by an accident they were supposed to help handle, engineers at a reactor in Minnesota warned American regulators about that very problem.


nytimes.com

[My quiet and polite suggestion is some regulatory heads ought to be rolled out of the business as they have been seen to fail. ...]