From: juan <juan.g71@gmail.com>
   To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org \
   >    So after s quick search, seems that the containment of the
   >  general electric designed reactor(s) failed? Maybe americunts
   > should be paying damages?
   If a court were to address the issue, I think the Japanese would lose,
   primarily because it had been about 40 years before the
   earthquake/tsunami occurred.  The question would be, "Could the
   Japanese have prevented or ameliorated the damages by modifying the
   equipment between 1970 and 2010?".   I think the answer is obviously
   "yes".  They should have anticipated that a tsunami would short out
   electrical lines outside the plant's walls, rendering them unuseable.
   This was a fixable problem; they simply chose to continue to operate
   the plant containing a known defect.
                Jim Bell