Obviously - however, they shouls have realize the incremental, try and salvage what we can, approach was not the way to go with the old nuclear power plant.
“Obviously - however, they shouls have realize the incremental, try and salvage what we can, approach was not the way to go with the old nuclear power plant.”
We can’t all be Bruce Willis, with editors to fix the decisions we should have made the other way. I suspect that most of this mess up was just a lot of incremental decisions made under extreme stress that didn’t work the way they hoped. Or maybe there was no way out once the tsunami took out the generators. Or maybe they just should have started encasing it in cement at the git go. But where would they have gotten the cement, given that the whole NE of the country was shut down and there was no power.
Maybe they should have known. Knowing what we know now, they should have thought if there’s a earthquake, we might get a tsunami also and that might wipe out the generators and . . . . Or we could eliminate all power plants—lots of people die in regular power plants.
But there’s no way to eliminate all risk ever, no matter how much you think it out in advance. I don’t know what the answer is. Maybe western civilization really is reaching it’s limits. We need x amount of energy and you can’t generate that much with politically acceptable risks.