Nuclear Disaster in Japan - Reason Magazine
"The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants continues.
Amazingly, a 40-year-old power plant built to withstand a 7.9 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale shut down automatically as designed when the Earth began shaking.
In fact, it stood up to an earthquake that released more than 40 times the amount of energy the plant was designed to survive.
At the moment it appears that the 33-foot tsunami that knocked out its backup diesel generators for its coolant pumps was the plant's undoing."
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