[FRIAM] Here's How the Texas Energy Grid Fell Short

[Frank Wimberly]

So Texas is below average in percent of electric power from  nuclear.  My
dad worked for Westinghouse Nuclear Energy Systems.  He was involved in
several US plants but was eventually Manager of Latin American projects.  I
know he worked on nuclear plants in Brazil and Puerto Rico.

When I was working in the Robotics Institute Raj Reddy became aware that
automation was somehow involved in the Three Mile Island accident.  He
asked me to ask my dad what happened so I got a written report from him.
As I recall the automation worked as designed but a human operator overrode
it causing the damage.  I still have that write-up somewhere.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 10:08 AM cody dooderson <d00d3rs0n at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Frank It looks like there are 2 Nuclear plants in Texas. They are called
> the South Texas Project and Comanche Peak, which accounted for about 8% of
> the total electricity in 2019 ☢️
>
> Cody Smith
>
> ☢️
> https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/1?agg=2,0,1&fuel=vtvv&geo=0000000002&sec=g&freq=A&start=2001&end=2019&ctype=linechart&ltype=pin&tab=generation&maptype=0&rse=0&pin=
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:14 AM Barry MacKichan <
> barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> wrote:
>
>> To quote the zeitgeist, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
>>
>> On 16 Feb 2021, at 22:51, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> https://www.texaspolicy.com/heres-how-the-texas-energy-grid-fell-short/
>>
>> Another viewpoint on the Texas Powergrid mystery.
>>
>> Clean energy is definitely made the boogie man here.
>>
>> n
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