Interesting story but seems to be a case of no matter how bad things were thank goodness they weren’t worse.
People worked very hard, at every stage from planing through disaster recovery, to make sure they weren't.
Lots of brave and bright souls took extraordinary pains and risks to make that happen, as a simple matter of professional pride, integrity, duty, dignity, decency and face.
Somewhere out there are dark souls doing all they can to make a future disaster as devastating as humanly possible, in the name of their "god". Never forget Osama bin Laden started out as an engineer building stuff. Never forget the pig-god in whose name he lusted to become a mass murderer. We should never allow another to follow in his bloody footprints.
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What I find amazing is the poor planing for emergencies. The whole disaster was a result of no cooling water for the reactor due to damage from the quake. I will never understand why the reactor was not designed to have a backup system with its own independent power source to pump cooling water in an emergency.
All it would have taken is a couple of diesel engines and pumps. These are cheap. They had a whole damn ocean of water to use if necessary.