> the Fukishima plant ... were unable to withstand single failures. I don't know the details, but I'm pretty sure you can't put the blame of the Fukushima disa

> the Fukishima plant ... were unable to withstand single failures. I don't know the details, but I'm pretty sure you can't put the blame of the Fukushima disaster on a single failure. e.g: - structure withstood magnitude 9 when designed for at least magnitude 8 - following the shock, rods went down successfully - power lines being down, generators powering water pumping started successfully - tsunami drowned oldest generators which were laid too low for a tsunami of that scale, backup batteries took charge - total amount of destruction around caused delays in grid power restoration so batteries eventually went down - core could not be cooled so it melted down, and fell to the containment vessel This is a tiny excerpt sequence of only parts of the events, but it can be seen that there were both multiple successes and multiple failures. Had there been a single failure, it would have stayed quite safe, but the cascade of events led to the disaster we know.