full-disclosure - nuclear plants reach software quality levels

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Message-ID: <20110330105023.GA2102@sivokote.iziade.m$>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:50:23 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: nuclear plants reach software quality levels

<quote>
The research paper concluded that there was a roughly 10 percent chance that a tsunami could test or overrun the defenses of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant within a 50-year span based on the most conservative assumptions.
But Tokyo Electric did nothing to change its safety planning based on that study, which was presented at a nuclear engineering conference in Miami in July 2007.
[1]
</quote>

on top of it their measuring devices overflowed:

<quote>
Those levels may be higher still, but authorities say 1,000 millisieverts is the upper limit of their measuring devices. [2]
</quote>

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/29/us-japa-nuclear-risks-idUSTRE72S2UA20110329
[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471904576229854179642220.html#

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