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Old 03-14-2011, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Riot View Post
The Japanese are amazing engineers, look at those Tokyo buildings swaying feet in the earthquake, but not falling down. Which is why it is astounding, with their care and redundancy and history of excellence, that we are facing three reactor meltdowns because there isn't electricity to run the cooling. And the backup generators don't work, because they didn't think of raising them above disaster flood level.
Pray that they get those reactors cooled down, best case is that they are ruined and will have to be dismantled and rebuilt. This is a serious blow to the nuke industry. Japanese are amazing folks, they will rebuild and recover but the human toll cannot be repaired, it is amazing that the death toll is as minimal as it appears but that's no comfort to the victims.
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