So what to do? Design for failure. (Politically, technically, economically, can be applied everywhere.) Yup. On a similar note, the French response to Fukushi

So what to do? Design for failure. (Politically, technically, economically, can be applied everywhere.) Yup. On a similar note, the French response to Fukushima Daichi is rather interesting (France relies on nuclear generation for over 80% of its electricity): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7380/full/481113a.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7380/full/481113a... "The ASN has also come up with an elegant technical solution to get around the (universal) dilemma of how to protect a plant from external threats, such as natural disasters. The report recommends that all reactors, irrespective of their perceived vulnerability, should add a 'hard core' layer of safety systems, with control rooms, generators and pumps housed in bunkers able to withstand physical threats far beyond those that the plants themselves are designed to resist." (And a mobile emergency force who can move in and stabilize a reactor after an unforseen catastrophic disaster that kills everyone on-site and destroys most of the safety systems.) In other words, they now expect unpredictable Bad Things to happen and are trying to build a flexible framework for dealing with it, rather than simply relying on procedures for addressing the known problems.