Late discovery of faults after car delivery to customers may determine legal issues that can only be overcome by expensive recalls.
But in the past, the discovery of faults has led some to take action.
Remapping of the Paleozoic rocks began in the 1930s, and Quaternary geology mapping became organized in the 1950s, leading to further discoveries of faults and folds in the bedrock.
My company had the plane crash, I felt responsible but, out of it, came discovery of the fault and the knowledge that such a problem will never happen again.
Concealing Facts Other lawsuits reveal how operators have dealt with the discovery of active fault lines by underestimating their importance or concealing them outright, even as nuclear regulators remained passive.
The expression connotes the nontransparent, collusive interests that underlie the establishment's push to increase nuclear power despite the discovery of active fault lines under plants, new projections about the size of tsunamis and a long history of cover-ups of safety problems.
But he said that advances in seismology have led to the gradual discovery of active fault lines under or near plants, creating an inherent problem for the operators and the government and leading to an inevitable conclusion for critics of nuclear power.
"This 'safety case' is subject to approval from the independent nuclear regulator, the ONR Officee for Nuclear Regulation)." The power outages following the discovery of a fault on a boiler "spine" at Heysham 1 have already led the National Grid to fast-forward an emergency plan to obtain more electricity from other providers to meet a possible shortfall.
The 22 Eurocopter EC 135s, including 16 air ambulances across the UK, were suspended as a precaution by operator Bond Air Services following the discovery of a fault in an air ambulance in Scotland last month.
Context: Static analysis of source code is a scalable method for discovery of software faults and security vulnerabilities.
