I respect your faith in good engineering, but I haven't seen alot of evidence of good engineering here.
There is no evidence to support your assertion that this is nothing like a "China syndrome" type issue. This facility is located a few miles from the eqicenter of the 4th largest earthquake in recorded history. None of the safety systems worked, and the power company and Japanese government has no clue about what to do.
So the future of (at a minimum) an entire region of Japan is dependent on a slab of concrete after a massive earthquake. It is a facility built in a known earthquake and flood hazard zone that requires continuous access to the utility grid.
Doesn't sound like good engineering by any standard to me.
There is no evidence to support your assertion that this is nothing like a "China syndrome" type issue. This facility is located a few miles from the eqicenter of the 4th largest earthquake in recorded history. None of the safety systems worked, and the power company and Japanese government has no clue about what to do.
So the future of (at a minimum) an entire region of Japan is dependent on a slab of concrete after a massive earthquake. It is a facility built in a known earthquake and flood hazard zone that requires continuous access to the utility grid.
Doesn't sound like good engineering by any standard to me.