Who designed/built that plant? The Japanese themselves? The US...the Brits...the Germans? Certainly not the Soviets or the Chinese.
Sometimes you just don’t know what to believe.
They should have had priority access to helicopters and backup batteries.
They withstood a gigantic earthquake IMMEDIATELY followed by a huge tsunami, and ALMOST survived it, intact.
This would have been huge boost to nuclear power, if only they had more backup batteries.
And maybe not putting it right next to a tsunami flood zone would have been a good idea too
I don’t trust the experts that wrote this report as far as I could throw the plant.
Interesting story but seems to be a case of no matter how bad things were thank goodness they weren’t worse.
... EXACTLY AS DESIGNED AND INTENDED. The point is that it will REMAIN there, unlike the millions of tons of toxic waste spewed into the environment by coal power plants every single year.
It's like anthropogenic climate change zealots - their models are proven wrong, their predictions are contradicted by observation, and yet they cling desperately to the idea that we're dooooomed, doomed I tell you!
"Look!" they shriek, "two extra people might get cancer someday!!! We must shut down all nuclear power plants now!!"
I liked the following quote...study predicted there will still be between 15 and 1,300 cancer fatalities worldwide....
First...."worldwide"? Really? 15 more deaths out of 7 billion? Second, two orders of magnitude is a pretty big range. Truly, this shows how worthless the "science" is on this - or how worthless the reporter is if they managed to get the facts wrong.
Bump for later