Probe Finds 'Total Collapse of BP Rig Defenses'

kpete

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Sun Dec-26-10 12:21 PM
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Probe Finds 'Total Collapse of BP Rig Defenses'

Edited on Sun Dec-26-10 12:22 PM by kpete

Published on Sunday, December 26, 2010 by Agence France-Presse
Probe Finds 'Total Collapse of BP Rig Defenses'

WASHINGTON - The April 20 explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the largest environmental disaster in US history occurred because every single defense on the rig named Deepwater Horizon failed, The New York Times reported Sunday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/us/26spill.html?hp

The April 20 explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the largest environmental disaster in US history occurred because every single defense on the rig named Deepwater Horizon failed. (Photo: New York Times)

The newspaper, which undertook its own investigation of the blast that killed 11 rig workers and injured dozens of others, said some of the defenses were deployed but did not work, some were activated too late, and some were never deployed at all.

Communications fell apart, warning signs were missed and crew members in critical areas failed to coordinate a response, the report pointed out.

The result was paralysis, The Times said.

MORE:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/26-1
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/26/us/20101226-deepwater-horizon-rig-video-diagram.html?ref=us

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Sun Dec-26-10 12:37 PM
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1. Engines that can run away due to the inhalation of combustible gasses

should be fitted with a nitrogen flooding system that could force feed enough nitrogen into the intakes to kill the engine in short order. To my knowledge no such system exists today, if it did, and if it was used on large generator packages, the BP disaster might have never went down the way it did.

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Tesha

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Sun Dec-26-10 02:38 PM
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2. Remember this when folks assure us that "Nuclear energy is safe!".

Any system that depends upon humans isn't safe, it's just a
question of what the worst case scenario can be.

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