Originally Posted by
talonXracer
As bad as it is, and due to it's severity, I have to ask myself WTF were the Japs thinking? designing the primary spent fuel rod pools as the roof of the containment vessels? No onsite diesel generators to produce electricity for the cooling pumps? All built on a known large fault line. Well we have our own govt to thank for this. The gen1 nuke power plants were known to have serious faults, but were pushed into useage anyways because the alternative would have bankrupted GE. At the time these plants were being built nothing occured in japan without US Govt approval.
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