Hopefully we will learn from this and modify our nuclear plants to make them stand up to a Tsunami. Some of our nuclear plants are also too close to the ocean. They need to enclose the backup diesel generators in a building that can’t be knocked down or flooded by a Tsunami wave.
Seems like they lost cooling of the fuel. I know not much about reactors but 4 GE reactors built in the same place and all 4 having the same problem looks like a bad design by GE.
nuclear power plants in the united states only exist when they take handouts from the taxpayers. banks will not invest in nuclear power plants without government moneyand loan guarantees.no insurance company will insure a nuclear power plant, so the taxpayer does. think about that, if business thought that nuclear power was safe and profitable wouldn’t they invest in it without government guarantees? wouldn’t insurance companies insure nuclear power plants if they were safe? from construction to the storage of it’s waste the nuclear industry is a welfare industry. corporations, just like individuals need to start paying their own way.