Japan has been through this experience before with Touhoku so they went high up as soon as they heard about it... (it wasn't as close though)...
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Originally Posted by Nicky91
hopefully we won't get another Fukushima like incident which occured few years ago, also with a earthquake/tsunami
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It shouldn't if they don't keep their
only backup cooling solution stored in a basement where it could be wiped out by floods
... the Daiichi plants were much older GE designs. I think #1 was even one of the original designs...
Nuclear plants have more than evolved overtime. Some don't require a mains connection nearly immediately to keep stable and have other non-electric based alternative cooling... but that tsunami was so massive (30') that only an ancient sign on a mountain that said "Don't build lower than this" could predict it...
These Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan’s Coastline
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...ine-180956448/
And it wasn't a few years ago, it was 2011....