The problem at Fukushima Daiichi was not refurbishment problems: it was the fact that the emergency batteries and generators were in the basement and accessible

The problem at Fukushima Daiichi was not refurbishment problems: it was the fact that the emergency batteries and generators were in the basement and accessible from the sea-facing side of the structure. Fukushima Daini did not have those problems, and thus not much drama happened at it: * https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-flood-damage-to-emergency-diesel-generators-for-Fukushima-Daiichi-and-Daini_fig2_267581947 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-flood-dama... * https://hbr.org/2014/07/how-the-other-fukushima-plant-survived https://hbr.org/2014/07/how-the-other-fukushima-plant-surviv... The two plants are 12 km apart and got hit with the same tsunami.