Also, unless I completely missed the point somewhere and Japan is equally dumb, we're looking at a worst-case scenario of another Three Mile Island. *Not* a Chernobyl.
I mean, that's pretty bad, don't get me wrong, and I doubt Japan can afford to have the mess hit what little groundwater they possess, but it's containable.
What really baffles me is why the emergency shutdown systems failed. Yes, lack of power, I get that, but nuclear power plant designs these days are supposed to be fail-safe, not fail-bad.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
I mean, that's pretty bad, don't get me wrong, and I doubt Japan can afford to have the mess hit what little groundwater they possess, but it's containable.
What really baffles me is why the emergency shutdown systems failed. Yes, lack of power, I get that, but nuclear power plant designs these days are supposed to be fail-safe, not fail-bad.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs