On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 06:49:30AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
How so? It looks like it worked like it was designed to work. The problem is, a decision had been made about making a seawall only a certain height, and putting the switching circuitry in the basement which could be flooded. No doubt both these decisions had been approved by the Japanese involved. Now, if it had been determined later that they wanted to protect against much larger earthquakes and higher tsunamis, they could have increased the seawall height and sealed the basement of the reactor better. They chose not to do so. Jim Bell
I heard the Fukushima reactors were not secure compared to others, they are "single contour". Whether the Japanese would have blown better reactor is not clear to me. Do reactors have guarantee? For how long? Were the Fukushima reactors in guarantee?