To: Christian Engineer Mass
This power plant was designed to withstand a 8.0 earthquake, which it appeared to do. The problem was the tsunami swamping the diesel generators and batteries and shorting everything out.
No one thought of that.......
12 posted on
03/14/2011 5:38:00 PM PDT by
gandalftb
(Fighting jihadists is like fighting an earthquake, harden yourselves.)
To: gandalftb
I read somewhere that GE produced these Japanese nuke plants.
To: gandalftb
you mean no one thought of a tsunami? I find that hard to believe..
no reason why those gen sets weren’t built on top of the reactor or another high place...not at ground level
To: gandalftb
Yeah. And The San Andreas reactor is designed for 7.5. A few times weaker than this one.
25 posted on
03/14/2011 5:43:25 PM PDT by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
To: gandalftb
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The problem was the tsunami swamping the diesel generators and batteries and shorting everything out. No one thought of that....... I'll bet they thought of it. But the cost of making power plants on a coast "tsunami-proof" is astronomical. It would have prevented their construction in the first place, on economic grounds.
My guess is they just said, ignore the threat. And for 40 years they were right....
28 posted on
03/14/2011 5:44:23 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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