With all that coastline Japan should be investing more in tidal power generation and forget once and for all about nuclear power, too high the risk for earthquakes and tsunamis happening again even at worse scale.
Japan is in a pretty unique position – it’s certainly understandable why nuclear power is very popular there.
Tsunami destroys tidal power plant: none killed.
You are the PM of Japan, you make the call.
a tsunami can kill just as many people as an earth quake.
the subsequent deaths due to a destroyed power plant are another matter. from the article I get the impression that nuclear plants are built to withstand a lot of abuse and fuckups.
i see no reason to shy away from nuclear power. their power producing companies will know what kind of plants to run. we don't.
That's highly encouraging. That means that caught the people falsifying the reports and that they fired them.
If they had a "perfect" record, I would be incredibly worried.