motomaniac
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Well, the government could have foreseen this since we have earthquakes here all the time. Every time there is an earthquake there is also a tsunami alert. So, if you know that you have many earthquakes and tsunamis why would you build 15 reactors along the east coast where the huge fault sits just offshore and where the tsunami is most likely to hit? The answer is because they are completely stupid.
The reason the generators got knocked out is because they didnt have them well-enough protected nor did they have them on high ground. Again lack of foresight and general incompetence. The nuclear power people have a terrible safety record and done some amazingly stupid things like this:
In 1999 three workers received high doses of radiation in a small Japanese plant preparing fuel for an experimental reactor.
The accident was caused by bringing together too much uranium enriched to a relatively high level in stainless steel buckets outside of the reactor in a shed, causing a "criticality" (a limited uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction), which continued intermittently for 20 hours.
A total of 119 people received a radiation dose over 1 mSv from the accident. Two of the doses proved fatal.
The cause of the accident was "human error and serious breaches of safety principles", according to IAEA.
Later they brought in homeless people to clean up the accident.
There have been many similar acts of stupidity but they are allowed to get away with it because the media in Japan is strictly controlled by the government. Now, the whole world can see how stupid they are but unfortunately the guys who made this disaster are safe and sound while the rest of us have to suffer. I have many students who live in the area and this is only about an hour from here. I have ridden past these power plants many times.
The reason the generators got knocked out is because they didnt have them well-enough protected nor did they have them on high ground. Again lack of foresight and general incompetence. The nuclear power people have a terrible safety record and done some amazingly stupid things like this:
In 1999 three workers received high doses of radiation in a small Japanese plant preparing fuel for an experimental reactor.
The accident was caused by bringing together too much uranium enriched to a relatively high level in stainless steel buckets outside of the reactor in a shed, causing a "criticality" (a limited uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction), which continued intermittently for 20 hours.
A total of 119 people received a radiation dose over 1 mSv from the accident. Two of the doses proved fatal.
The cause of the accident was "human error and serious breaches of safety principles", according to IAEA.
Later they brought in homeless people to clean up the accident.
There have been many similar acts of stupidity but they are allowed to get away with it because the media in Japan is strictly controlled by the government. Now, the whole world can see how stupid they are but unfortunately the guys who made this disaster are safe and sound while the rest of us have to suffer. I have many students who live in the area and this is only about an hour from here. I have ridden past these power plants many times.