It was indeed surprising to read that the crisis at the three Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power stations did not come from buildings collapsing due to the March 11 earthquake of magnitude 9 but from power failure following the quake! The tsunami knocked out the generators that produced the power. Lack of power in turn caused the cooling systems of the reactors to fail.
Now isn't till terribly surprising that the 'safety designers' could never think of the possibility that generators that produced back-up power could be flooded by the waters gushing inland as a result of Tsunami. Simply may be that a ferocious Tsuanmi had never struck before and they never anticipated that one will in the future. Well isn't that planning is all about? To think the unthinkable :)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
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