On 28/03/2011 10:35, Doctor Drivel wrote:

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote in message
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On 26/03/2011 12:48, Alan wrote:
In message , "Nightjar
\"cpb\"@" wrote

Rubbish. Japan has the best tsunami experts in the world and they know
exactly how they react.

And that is why a wave of 10m managed to get cars on roofs twice as
high.

The estimate of wave size has been revised to at least 14m, possibly
more.

Nobody can be held responsible for not planning for an earthquake that
moved the entire country several feet and shifted the earth on its
axis.

And this hasn't happened before?

Not often enough to be considered a significant risk. This was the
fifth largest earthquake ever recorded anywhere in the world.

Those responsible for the safety of nuclear installations should have
considered this in a region noted for having major earthquakes on a
regular basis.

Given how well the structure withstood an earthquake 10 times as
powerful as any expected, I would say they did.

Dickhead, they never. It leaks radiation and the plant was wrecked.

The emergency systems worked exactly as they should have and shut the
plant down safely. If the earthquake had been the only catastrophe, it
would not even have been a news item. All the problems are a result of
all but one part of the backup in depth being knocked out by the tsunami
and it now appears that, had it been about a metre lower, even some of
that would have survived. If you had been following this thread, you
would also have realised that the amounts of radiation released are not
really significant. Of course the plant is wrecked, but the point is
there was no nuclear accident.

Colin Bignell