Only thing I’m worried about is a earth quake to happen then we will have a Fukushima disaster in the US. Our infrastructure in the US has been neglected for so long, what makes you think the Fed would help here?
Fukushima was an older design. Newer reactors can handle a lack of active cooling. It was also a mistake to place the backup generators at ground level, instead of elevated like experts were recommending even before the disaster. And it wasn’t the earthquake that caused the problem, but the resulting tsunami and flooding, so most sites that are not on the coast don’t have that risk.
Nuclear Power Plants are on another different level of safety regulations.
Fukushima was a cluster fudge of disasters. Japanese also admitted to underestimating the sincerity of a disaster, one being a 9.0 earthquake. They have now updated and increases their safety factors.
You are right though, in the end we can not trust that it would be safe, we the people would have to be vigilant and demand higher standards or force them to, though legal action like suing the company and gov’t.
Only thing I’m worried about is a earth quake to happen then we will have a Fukushima disaster in the US. Our infrastructure in the US has been neglected for so long, what makes you think the Fed would help here?
Fukushima was an older design. Newer reactors can handle a lack of active cooling. It was also a mistake to place the backup generators at ground level, instead of elevated like experts were recommending even before the disaster. And it wasn’t the earthquake that caused the problem, but the resulting tsunami and flooding, so most sites that are not on the coast don’t have that risk.
You have a point on our infrastructure problems.
Nuclear Power Plants are on another different level of safety regulations.
Fukushima was a cluster fudge of disasters. Japanese also admitted to underestimating the sincerity of a disaster, one being a 9.0 earthquake. They have now updated and increases their safety factors.
You are right though, in the end we can not trust that it would be safe, we the people would have to be vigilant and demand higher standards or force them to, though legal action like suing the company and gov’t.
Information I found on Fukushima disaster, this one had more details: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a6721/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-what-went-wrong-5508927/