Understood. I took geography and know about nuke plants. I remember three-mil island here in the USA.
I guess you didn't get my point: JAPAN IS RIDDLED WITH EARTHQUAKES. Earthquakes around oceans = tsunamis, especially since "tsunami" is a Japanese word. Duh.
Tsunamis around nuke plants = disaster. Those humans even with brains the sizes of peas can figure that out.
My point was that the Japanese built this nuke plant near their ocean. There were OTHER places to build nuclear plants. Japan has much water. So, why the STUPID place to build their plant?
California started to do that with a nuke plant near the ocean. The PUC was determined. Diablo Canyon (Nuclear) Power Plant, located on the water's edge in San Luis Obispo County California, was originally designed to withstand a 6.75 magnitude earthquake from four faults, including the nearby San Andreas and Hosgri faults, but was later upgraded to withstand a 7.5 magnitude quake. It has redundant seismic monitoring and a safety system designed to shut it down promptly in the event of significant ground motion.
Supposedly there are a TON of safeguards but who knows. At least California doesn't get tsunamis very often. Hasn't happened in my life.
WHY build it there? California has several nuke plants--some in the desert. Water can be bussed in. Tsunamis can't be walled out.
Do you understand my point now? Japan, an earthquake horror, was DUMB, knowing what they know.
I understand your point and think you make good onew, but you reek like an intervenor. You say you “remember three-mil island”; I read the accident report shortly after the incident and have yet to see it accurately reported in the public media.
Everywhere on earth there exist earthquake faults. So what.
My dad was part of the initial start-up group for SCE’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station 1 - SONGS1. I’ve lived near nuclear power plants all my life. I worked in Nuclear Plant Engineering at the Trojan Nuclear Plant, Goble, Oregon, for eight years.
Trojan was built in a region that experiences subduction earthquakes like those in Japan. Whether it is dams or natural gas, there is risk associated with living in an earthquake area. Probably the safest place to be during an earthquake would have been the solid rock Trojan was built upon, 45’ above sea level and seventy miles inland from the Pacific Ocean.
It was shutdown and is now decommissioned. This was done by an unethical CEO who was an antinuke and one greedy SOB. He shutdown Trojan, laid off 1300 people in order that Enron would purchase Portland General Corp. and he could join Enron’s Board of Directors. As an accountant he had to have known and recognized the shenanigans ongoing at Enron, because he retired from the BOD, waited a few months and sold all his Enron stock for $70Million+ just before the whole scheme tanked.
And the employees at Trojan and Portland General? Many lost everything they had worked years to acquire, and the folks still employed at Portland General lost their pensions - all of it - with the demise of Enron!
This has nothing directly to do with your argument exept this: without the power generated by Trojan the utility bills of everyone in the Pacific Northwest have skyrocketed.
If you don’t approve of dams, natural gas or nuclear you can always retreat to a forest somewhere and burn deadfall wood. But be forewarned: burning wood produces polonium in wood ash and it is radioactive. Never let your children clean out a fireplace and when you do, always wear a face mask and gloves. Polonium is an apha particle emitter, like plutonium. Stay safe.