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No, the fix is to not have fucking politicians in charge of practical matters. Yes, I'm serious. TEPCO wanted to dump sea water into the reactors as a last res
by Dalewyn 2y ago
No, the fix is to not have fucking politicians in charge of practical matters.
Yes, I'm serious. TEPCO wanted to dump sea water into the reactors as a last resort so they wouldn't melt down, but the Japanese government at the time didn't allow it because the reactors would be rendered unusable.
Of course, the reactors melted down and became unusable anyway.
Fukushima #1 was a human failure and the only solution to that is a human solution. Any engineering solution will be foiled by a bigger human failure, as the saying goes.
- dylan604 2y agoI mean sure, but if the backup generators weren't submerged from failure to plan for flooding, then the politicians wouldn't be in that situation. That's an engineering solution that isn't like earth shattering. Maybe it was a human bean counter that said it would cost too much (ha!) to do that for the generators. This isn't the same situation of planning to use school buses as an evacuation plan not realizing their parking lot is likely to be flooded. This is a nuclear reactor and there's meant to be some really smart people involved.
- Dalewyn 2y ago>if the backup generators weren't submerged from failure to plan for flooding We need to be fair here: Plans for potential flooding were made, the issue was nobody expected a tsunami that fucking tall and reasonably so. Guidelines and such have been updated since so it (hopefully) won't happen again, but you can't fault engineers of the past for working with the data they had and coming to the conclusions they did.
- serf 2y ago>the issue was nobody expected a tsunami that fucking tall and reasonably so. that's less reasonable when you consider Japan's history with tsunami. The events in 1933,1896, and 1993 produced tsunamis with larger wave heights than the Tohoku event.