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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by aaronmdjones on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:37PM (#19177096)
The Fukushima situation was predicted, several times, and TEPCO were warned about the dangers of having basement emergency generators at least 6 times. Nothing happened, because fixing that would cost money. The sea wall was artificially lowered from 30 metres to 10 metres, because keeping it at 30 during construction would have cost more money.

At the end of the day it's money.

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by underwater on Saturday February 16, 2019 @04:18AM (#19177874)
And people. Neither of which new plant designs will address.
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