[lug] NoVAD: Protecting Cloud Data

[David L. Anselmi]

Rob Nagler wrote:
>
> One of the reasons for NoVAD is that the unthinkable does happen, and
> that's why it's a dramatic event: virtually assured destruction.
> Despite all the safeguards and sophisticated technology, nuclear
> reactors have gone critical, and people have died.

Not commenting on the NoVAD idea...

Critical is not the word you want.  Melted down maybe.  In the US no one has died from a nuclear 
reactor accident since "safeguards and sophisticated technology" have been employed.  The deaths 
early on were reactors that didn't have good safeguards.

This list is interesting 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll.  Reactor 
accident deaths appear to be one-sidedly Soviet.

Also, the NRC claims that scram is not an acronym. 
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2011/05/17/putting-the-axe-to-the-scram-myth/

Dave