Just a week ago the word Tsunami was linked in the public mind with the Boxing day disaster. Now it is far more likely to be remembered as the word that led to a wholesale rethink of energy policy. Yet another unplanned for high impact ultra low probability occurrence has done just that, occurred. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Macondo, and Fukushima. It seems that we don't want to learn. It's hard to have a plan B for a 9.0 magnitude earthquake offshore and a massive tsunami wiping out reactor backup systems, so we didn't. So, 3 reactors are probably melting, one is hot and all three will never work again.
By the way the Chinese are still going to build their planned 155 reactors....
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