The Japanese company was to blame for building the reactor in a vulnerable place and not protecting it sufficiently from a tsunami. Apparently they are rare on that part of the coast, but even a slight chance should have been avoided.
As for the duplicity and silence of the MSM, that’s what they always do. It’s politically correct to hate nuclear power, so they hate nuclear power. They don’t want to know the truth, they just want to ensure that nuclear power continues to be blocked.
Funny how leftists keep insisting they are the bastion of freely available science and against the type of superstitions calling a gun evil.
Well blow me down! I would have thought it was the Japanese govt. that chose the location for the plant, not the company that built it.
And who woulda thought 45 years ago that a once in a millenium tsunami would come along and destroy it and that coastline.........
And while we're using your logic, how stupid were those multi-generational people in choosing to live on that coast anyway?
3 Mile Island was 24/7 with the Media as I recall. China Syndrome, the movie, came out shortly thereafter. Talk about Hype.
I look at Fukushima the same way I looked at the BP oil debacle. International help was needed & offered & rejected by our PINO until things got good and greasy. In Japan’s case, this mess will affect more than just the people who live in that area if some serious intervention doesn’t happen soon, IMHO.
There were stone markers hundreds of years old giving warnings of the hazards of tsunami in that location, as well as others. They built inside of the warned area.
Sometimes, no matter how “stupid” or “primitive” you think something is, it’s just plain worth listening to regardless...