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Re: Attempting to bring clarity to the nuclear problems facing JapanPhil, thanks for the awesome write up. One question that I've had that I've not heard talked about. As I understand it, the tsunami is what did in the reactors by flooding the back up generators. If these generators were installed in a roof top or raised platform position say 30 or so feet above ground and not in a basement or ground level location like most back up generators; would they have survived better than they have?I have faith that the best nuclear power engineers are working to avert the worst case scenario. But my real fear is that this will put the kerbash on further nuclear power expansion and research and/or that things will get so fucked by by congressional hearings and environmental lawsuits that we are looking at 20 or more years of stalemate (i.e. more sucking on the fossil fuel tit).
Re: Attempting to bring clarity to the nuclear problems facing Japan
Phil, thanks for the awesome write up. One question that I've had that I've not heard talked about. As I understand it, the tsunami is what did in the reactors by flooding the back up generators. If these generators were installed in a roof top or raised platform position say 30 or so feet above ground and not in a basement or ground level location like most back up generators; would they have survived better than they have?
I have faith that the best nuclear power engineers are working to avert the worst case scenario. But my real fear is that this will put the kerbash on further nuclear power expansion and research and/or that things will get so fucked by by congressional hearings and environmental lawsuits that we are looking at 20 or more years of stalemate (i.e. more sucking on the fossil fuel tit).
