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You've done that right from the start. Take fragments of information
and
try to draw conclusions. Exactly like making an ass of yourself by
speculating on what brought an airliner down before there is an
investigation. It could very well turn out that the key intiating
event
was that the diesel generators were not protected from the sunami.


One more bit. Neither were the diesel generators at the nearby Fukushima
Daiini adequately protected from a tsunami. Tepco estimates the wave was
more than twice the height of the wall. That took out the cooling pump
rooms for all but the #3 reactor.

Very similar circumstances as at Daiichi. No smoking ruins. Daiini
(number 2) was built later and uses the Mark 2 containment (also
stressed to higher G's).

Something for you *not* to think about. You seem to only like
analogies to airplanes rather than to something relevant.

Jeff