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03-16-2011, 06:19 PM
Old School Wrote:Was the damage to the reactors caused mainly by the earthquake itself, or by the tsunami knocking out the power to the backup cooling systems?

Last night during an interview with nuclear experts (their words not mine) said that while these systems were designed by GE, the data used in the design was provided by Japan and that they were designed for a much smaller earthquake.
I don't know which happened to cause it OS. All I know is, when something went wrong, the tsunami flooded the backup diesel generators that provide electric that powers the system that keeps the reactor cool, and they wouldn't start so that they could do their job. From all appearances, it looks like the main electric was knocked out, then the diesel generators got flooded and wouldn't work, thus there was no electric to keep the cooling system going, and the reactors started heating up.
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