[Menehune56]

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.

The earthquake didn't take out the reactors. The resulting tsunami flooded the emergency generators and knocked them out of action. And when you think about it, earthquakes and tsunamis are not disjoint events so this probably should have been foreseen.

[mvpel]

You can’t judge them too harshly for not forseeing a 9.0 earthquake and a fifty-foot tsunami, I don’t think.