| ▲ | PaulHoule 5 days ago | |||||||
Oddly the art is largely Japanese in style, not just the musume (e.g. "girl") images but that first one. Between that accident and the year 2000 there were about 60 criticality accidents causing about 20 fatalities https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0037/ML003731912.pdf After a software project failure that overturned my life I got interested in the quality movement, Deming, Toyota Production System and all that. I was also interested in nuclear energy, actually opposed to it at that time, an opinion I have changed. Before the Fukushima accident I became aware that Japan was leading the world in nuclear accidents, especially this criticality incident https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-sec... as well as the comedy of errors at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant which I could summarize as "makes Superphenix look like a huge success" Causes floated for that were that (1) Japan was more aggressive at developing nuclear technology post-1990 more than any country other than Russia (who is making the FBR look easy today) and (2) the attitudes and methods that served Japan well in cars and semiconductors served them terribly in the nuclear business. Workgroups in a Japanese factory, for instance, are expected to modify their techniques and tools to improve production but takes detailed modelling and strict following of rules to avoid criticality accidents. | ||||||||
| ▲ | marcosdumay 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> Workgroups in a Japanese factory, for instance, are expected to modify their techniques and tools to improve production If you go through the Fukushima disaster handling, that doesn't seem to have happened at all. In fact, people seemed to be super inflexible and actions seemed to have a long authorization chain. The Toyota Production System wasn't actually that free, it expected people to report the changes before they happen and had plenty of opportunities for a manager to step in and stop it. Anyway, I'm not sure how widely it was adopted in Japan, the system famously came from there, but the country isn't famous for applying it. | ||||||||
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