Understanding the accident of Fukushima Daiichi

Saw this on another forum. Pretty interesting...

This belongs in the bad name thread.

Sorry, I don't see it as an accident... Completely foreseeable, they should have had backup cooling in a protected location high above the sea... Japan has experienced enough earthquakes to recognized the danger of tsunamis & instead of trying to save the reactor when it was clear backup cooling had failed they should have pumped in sea water long before it got critical.... They could have flown in likely 50 or more P250 standard US Navy fire pumps within the first day & many more in the following days... Those pumps move 250 gallons per minute @ 125 PSI...

They didn't want to introduce salt water in the early days because it will contaminate the core & the plant will never work again... Well guess what.. The plant will never work again anyway & they let the thing do untold damage to the environment...

Pure greed, you look around that area of Japan after the tsunami, the level of destruction was unbelievable & yet rather than accept that the plant was lost they risk further damage to the local as well as world environment to attempt to save the facility.... The resources to support saving the plant simply didn't exist in that area after what they had been through...

Humans....

Fukashima is a G.E. designed plant. I worked 35 Years for G.E. Power Systems and our guys out of Chicago
Service Center worked at the plant before the event. In my opinion, the plant should have never been built
on that spot because of the earthquake probability and also the Tsunami probability. You have to remember
that in different countries the people have cultural qualities that make them feel smarter or invincible. Case in
point is Russia with the Kursk disaster, Chernobyl, the recent missile explosion. Japan was not forthcoming
with the news on Fukashima until it was clear to them that they had a world changing disaster. The Reactors
are in fact BWR's as designed by G.E. They are a great design and run for lifetimes with no problems unless
humans don't operate them correctly or they are put in the wrong place such as this spot. Dresden station
in Morris Illinois has three BWR's, unit one is decommissioned, and units two and three are running since
the mid 70's with no problems. They're more efficient than a HPWR, (High Pressure Water Reactor) because
they don't have a heat exchanger between the reactor and the Turbines. These "accidents" have scared a lot
of people and ruined a good thing. Solar power and battery technology is our only hope now!

should have never been built where it was