Natural Disaster or Design Error?
When the Fukushima nuclear plants were designed, engineers decided that the 13 foot high bluff that the plant was built on was enough protection from a Tsunami.
A 46 foot high wave hit the plant after an earthquake of almost 9.0 magnitude occurred. Now the question is … “Was this just a natural disaster or was it a design error?”
The plant’s owners said they, “Left it to the experts.”
Now an expert is saying in a New York Times article:
“Mr. Synolakis called Japan’s underestimation of the tsunami risk a ‘cascade of stupid errors that led to the disaster’ and said that relevant data was virtually impossible to overlook by anyone in the field.”
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