Japan 8.9 earthquake

[zapman2000]

When the earthquake hit it knocked power out originaly, they brought up emergency generators for cooling, obviously their 1st worry was getting cooling back in order. I am sure by the time they started to think about shutting anything down the tsunami had already hit at which point it knocked the back up generators out and they lost the ability to cool the rods.

I don't think you know much about nuclear reactors they had cooling for a little while till the generators failed most important thing when running on backup power for a reactor is to shut it down

BTW I was Wong they did shut all of them off just not fast enough to cool them off before the lost backup power

PS
Backup power should equal time it takes to shut down into an "off state"
Off state is a relative term

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[zapman2000]

I hate hearing people state about how japan never should have put the reactors near the sea and blah blah... all of these people have never been to japan so you don't know that there is not much buildable land in japan due to all the mountains

It's not about buildable land, you build a reactor next to the sea for easy access to water nothing else its the most economical place to build one.

You could easy build one in the mountains if you had water source and money

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