Alan wrote:

In the UK a facility being hit by an aircraft full of fuel or a ****ed
off military pilot (being told he is redundant by email) firing a
missile is a more likely scenario.

I haven't seen any discussion of the effect of a flood like that of 1953
on Sizewell nuclear power station.
The main problem in Japan seems to have arisen from the failure
of the pumping stations, which I would have thought
could fail for many reasons.

Did power fail in East Anglia in 1953?
I was living in Suffolk at the time, and don't recall any blackouts,
but I was some way from the coast (Bury St Edmunds).


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