Meltdown??

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yeah, except for that 0.000000001% chance of the 9.0 earthquake immediately followed by 3-meter tsunami ...

And Japan does a better job than we do.

Japan is either on or close to the boundary of four tectonic plates: the Pacific, North American, Eurasian which are primary plates, and Philippines Sea plate, which is one of the secondary plates. To say that a 9.0 earthquake (and/or the resulting tsunami from it) shouldn't have been on the list of possibilities, is stupid. They had a 9.5 in Chile (1960.) They had a 9.2 in Alaska (1964.) They had a 9.1 in Indonesia (in 2004.) They had a 9.0 in Kamchatka, Russia (1952.) Where these plates come together, there is a possibility of very large quakes. We could have a 9.0 along our Pacific Coast (Norther California Coast, all the way up to Canada.) I believe the San Andreas can only go as high as an 8. Our coastal Nuclear plants should be required to be able to handle the worst Tsunami that could possibly hit them. The same goes for the Japanese Nuclear plants. They were not equipped to handle it. The results were "beyond their expectations." That is not an excuse. It's the reason the people of Japan are are being terrorized by a nuclear plant accident. They didn't prepare for this possible scenario. They fkd up.