Dear All, I doubt that you will be pleased to know that the nuclear industry has chosen the same measuring path as that used for the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1998. You will recall that the Mars Climate Orbiter crashed on the surface of Mars, at a cost of 328 million dollars, because one part of the project team was using old pre-metric inches, ounces, pounds, and miles while another section was using metres and kilograms.
This article from "Nuclear Engineering International" at http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sectioncode=132&storyCode=2058146 states (in the final paragraph): … and metrication—many of the AP1000 submissions have been in Imperial, rather than metric, units. I suppose that we can now expect nuclear reactor "crashes" like the Mars Climate Orbiter as soon as someone makes a conversion error. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
