"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"Rich Grise" wrote in message

For heaven's sakes, let's put the reactors on oceangoing barges - didn't
we learn how to build undersea cables about a century or so ago?

Can you say, "tsunami"? d8-)

Yeah, that's why it makes sense to put them out on the high seas. When
we got the tsunami warnings, the boats that put out to see simply rode
it out - it's just a big, fast, longwave wave until it hits shore and
starts to break. On the open ocean, they're almost imperceptible:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/T...n_tsunami.html

Hope This Helps!
Rich

Ok. "Oceangoing barges" sound like a possibility -- well out in the ocean.
Around here, the edge of the mid-Atlantic Continental Shelf it pretty far
out, and the waters of the shelf are pretty shallow. I don't know *how*
shallow they have to be to build up those big waves.

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Ed Huntress