My late father helped design and build them as a GE employee, who worked for them for 39 yrs. At that time in the 70’s, he took about 10 trips over there working with “Japan Electric”.
The placement and surveys, and event prediction and severity are the problem, NOT the design.
I agree, but facts do not matter with chicken little or people with an anti-GE and/or anti-nuclear axe to grind.
I worked for GE power for 10 years but don't care for GE anymore. Immelt and the lefties have ruined a once proud and properly industrious company. Obama, green, and multiculturalism are their heroes now. But I will not stand for illogical and purely political hits on the BWR or nuclear power.
These were state-of-the-art when built. And I don't believe for a minute that some of these new "safer" nuclear plants are perfectly safe because nothing is perfectly safe. It took 50 years for a BWR to have a significant event like this and nature was required to participate. I'd say they have been remarkably safe over the years. PWR reactors too. Yes, there are SAFER designs now, but not SAFE designs. We need to keep perspective. Life is a risk. We are witnessing the consequences of one of those risks....Earthquake and Tsunami being larger than expected.