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> 1) Massive earthquake 2) Massive tsunami 3) Devastating fire 4) Complete loss of power to all control circuitry > An extreme worst-case scenario if there eve
by hackuser 12y ago
> 1) Massive earthquake 2) Massive tsunami 3) Devastating fire 4) Complete loss of power to all control circuitry
> An extreme worst-case scenario if there ever was one, and yet no one died.
I don't know that it was extreme. If the earthquake was a significant risk, and the tsunami was a likely result of the earthquake, the rest is no surprise.
Does anyone know how likely the earthquake and following tsunami were?
- Turing_Machine 12y agoIt was a 9.0 earthquake. Tied for fourth in the list of largest earthquakes ever recorded. So, yeah, pretty extreme. Edit: Try throwing a 9.0 at, say, Hoover Dam (or worse, the Three Gorges Dam in China) and see what happens. Hint: the death toll won't be zero.
- jessaustin 12y agoYes, populous Laughlin NV will be devastated, in the unlikely event that a new fault line opens under Hoover Dam and generates a 9.0 earthquake. I'll be less surprised the next time a nuclear plant located right on the Pacific gets hit by a tsunami.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoATW, the area has a population of about 100,000. There are about 360 million people living downstream of the Three Gorges Dam.
- babuskov 12y agoIIRC, when they designed the plan, they took historical data of the past 100 years and made sure the plant was built to sustain any disaster that happened in that period. But this one was stronger.