To a degree it is reasonable fear.
But what really did in the Fukushima reactor was the Tsunami flooding the backup diesel generators that would have kept the cooling pumps going. (TEPCO shot itself in the foot badly in its worst case scenario planning) There's also the fact that a lot of environmental activists have managed to block quite successfully the construction and development of safer reactors than the current pack of early 70s era designs which most nations still use (other than the former Soviet republics which use a far less safe designs). I suspect the only really new reactor designs in widescale use are the ones in U.S. navy Virginia class submarines and the first Ford class Carrier.
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."
But what really did in the Fukushima reactor was the Tsunami flooding the backup diesel generators that would have kept the cooling pumps going. (TEPCO shot itself in the foot badly in its worst case scenario planning) There's also the fact that a lot of environmental activists have managed to block quite successfully the construction and development of safer reactors than the current pack of early 70s era designs which most nations still use (other than the former Soviet republics which use a far less safe designs). I suspect the only really new reactor designs in widescale use are the ones in U.S. navy Virginia class submarines and the first Ford class Carrier.
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."