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Why Fukushima Failed: A short overview on the circumstances leading up to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, along with the aftermath of the event.
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Why Fukushima Failed: A short overview on the circumstances leading up to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, along with the aftermath of the event.
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I haven’t watch the video yet but I’m going to guess now then watch to see if I’m right..
my guess: Secondary loop cooling emergency backup generators were situated outside at ground level, unprotected from water ingress in a known tsunami prone district.. so when the earthquake shut down the secondary loops cooling systems the emergency backup diesel generators kicked in.. but were shut down when the tsunami flooded them…leaving the emergency cooling system without power stopping the flow of cooling water causing the primary loop to overheat and generate excess hydrogen filling the cores surrounding building to fill until it ignited blowing the superficial buildings outer walls/roof off and damaging the reactor enough to vent radioactive material/gas into the atmosphere…
Edit: close enough (the location of the emergency generators was way worse than i had heard)
Great content but my god that dude’s voice is grating.
Not going to be a popular take on reddit, but *this* is the reason people fear Nuclear power.
It doesn’t matter how safe nuclear power plants are in theory, at the end of the day they are built by people, managed by people, and maintained by people. People who make mistakes and make decisions motivated by the wrong reasons.
If the *Japanese* can’t get a nuclear power plant right, what hope does anyone else have? The Japanese are already known to over-engineer and have the best earthquake (and tsunami) proof infrastructure on the planet. They are known to take regulations around this stuff seriously.
Yet despite that, even they failed.
Would anyone here actually trust living near a nuclear power plant in a place like Florida? It’s not the nuclear energy that is the danger, but the inevitable bad design and lack of planning. The danger is some populist getting elected and slashing funding for maintenance and safety reviews.
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