This resilience reflects the caution of reactor designers, who build a margin of error into their seismic engineering. (newscientist.com)
Despite the severity of the accident at the Fukushima I plant, nuclear reactor designers don't expect the same type of backlash against the nuclear industry as occurred a generation ago after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. (science.sciencemag.org)
Testing that has been completed on components of the system, dubbed KRUSTY, has been «greatly successful — the models have predicted very well what has happened, and operations have gone smoothly,» said Dave Poston, chief reactor designer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. (businessinsider.com)