I worked for a nuclear power plant from construction until my retirement 38 years later. This was the philosophy required by the NRC.
It made sense at the time because the regulatory environment in the beginning guaranteed the utilities a profit.
Later after the ‘Deregulation’ of utilities did away with that philosophy of guaranteed profits the NRC philosophy did not change and the NRC kept requiring new guards against natural disasters that had no chance of happening at our plant.
Our plant sits on the shores of Lake Erie at the top of a 60 foot cliff. After the Fukushima power plants were taken out by a tidal wave our plant had to spend many millions of dollars to do a study of the plans terrain and install flood protections against a tidal wave on Lake Erie.
The fact that Lake Erie has never had wave recorded over 25 foot. That leaves the plant with a 35 foot safety margins.
The economics are not justified to ensure against non-extant threats.
Shall we pay technocrats to dream of unrealistic terrors that we need to prepare to defeat?
That way is madness and universal poverty.
I don't think that anyone is claiming to be prepared for every natural disaster.
It's foolishness for us to prep for hurricanes, tornadoes, or flooding. The risk of other natural disasters of other kinds is very low.
We are prepped for snow, ice, and power outages. We get those regularly, but should something like an earthquake happen, the same prepping we do for snow and ice would work as well. So you don't need *special* preps for each individual kind of disaster.
By discouraging people from prepping as you are, you are only exacerbating the problems of recovery when they do happen because the government cannot and will not be able to bail everyone out in the manner they expect.
Of course, prepping for a tsumani off the Great Lakes is moronic, but that is the government for you.