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amurphy245
reply to post by Agit8dChop
I may be wrong here but this whole disaster can be attributed to the fact that the backup generators failed causing a meltdown,the design of the plant and its placement could have prevented the disaster from happening in the first place,a small price to pay looking back now.
Having the backup generators underground right next to the ocean was total idiocy and should have been foreseen as a problem,clearly tepco weren't taking nuclear power safety seriously that's why they closed the rest of the nuclear plants to make them safe.
The three-page report said Tepco had failed to heed warnings by government experts and its own scientists of the possibility of waves big enough to breach the plant's 5.7-meter protective wall.
So, they had a safer place to put their backup generators, on the higher embankment, but the whole plant was better protected also, at the higher elevation.
the Onagawa plant stayed out of the tsunami's reach thanks to the foresight of a past executive at operator, Tohoku Power Electric Co, who insisted on building the plant on an embankment much higher than was thought necessary.
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ENENews
Fukushima is slowly but constantly poisoning the whole globe and nothing will stop it!
Mclaneinc
What I can't believe is the arrogance of building such building in the ultra close proximity of the sea, didin't anyone in Japan, one of the largest area's for strong earthquakes not think "hey maybe we think its earthquake proof but lets make it in land just in case".
suz62
reply to post by Battleline
They've been finding cesium in Tokyo for over a year. Why Japan was picked for the Olympics is beyond me.
StopThaZionistWorldOrder
This radiation is a slow kill that is speeding up. Expert say the radiation will be ten times more along the West Coast Of North America than it is in Japan.