Two engineers who study earthquakes in the United States and India met at a Frontiers of Engineering meeting in the United States in . Nicolas Luco with the United States Geological Survey talked about designing nuclear power plants that can withstand earthquakes.
Make sure that you design for some ground motion that has the small chance of happening. We want to be pretty conservative. But this newer method goes beyond that, says we want to really be able to qualify what is the chance of damage to the power plant, said Luco.
C.S. Manohar is an engineer from Bangalore, India, who listened to Mr.Lugo and invited him to come to India. Both of these engineers want stronger building rules to deal with the risk of earthquakes in all buildings, not just nuclear power plants. These engineers are now looking for money to pay for further cooperation.
Building awareness and connections is what the Frontiers of Engineering Program is all about. The Frontiers of Engineering meetings are planned for and by younger engineers. There is a meeting in India in May, one in Japan in June and one in California in September.
This has been the Learning English Education Report. Im Karen Leggett.
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