RE: The nuclear situation in Japan is getting worse, experts worry about other plants in seismic zones
@bb_apptix #17 - There's a very good reason for building "on the
beach" - it's a single pump's distance to the world's largest heat
sink. That's not to say that natural phenomena like this shouldn't
be taken into account, but economics *must* have a role in
energy production.
@Tamalaine #20 - I worked my way through college at a nuclear
plant. One of the projects I worked on was reviewing the design
bases and ensuring they were still being met. One of these was
that the containment building should be able to withstand the
force of a fully-loaded DC-10 (the largest commercial airliner
when it was designed) directly striking the containment dome.