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> Germany may not be able to get tsunamis, but are tsunamis they only thing that can take out power and take out the backups? That’s exactly the issue. All the
by kuschku 9y ago
> Germany may not be able to get tsunamis, but are tsunamis they only thing that can take out power and take out the backups?
That’s exactly the issue. All the plants are at rivers. Most directly in the floodplains. With backup generators that end up covered by water during the floods. With floods every autumn.
- walshemj 9y agoA river flooding is not the same order of magnitude (probably by more than 1) as a tsunami - so care to share any shutdowns of German nuke plants caused by river flooding ? BTW my first Job was at a world leading hydrodynamics org in the Nuke and Computer modeling section
- kuschku 9y agoThe problem isn't the scale, it's that the pennycutters decided to build the backup generators so low that they'd get flooded. And they have been many times. Just that previously, in those cases, the grid was still up, and the reactors running. If the reactors were in progress of being shut down, and the connection to the grid severed, this could have become the same issue as with Fukushima.