Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too

Re:Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too by sesqu on Monday May 16, 2011 @07:31PM (#2554650)

This comment reminded me about the most overlooked detail of the whole shebang, in my opinion:

There was a 9.0 earthquake near a population center. There are 15037 people confirmed dead and 9487 people missing. Estimates of material loss range up to $300000000000. Also, a powerplant broke.

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Re:Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too by InclinedPlane on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:50PM (#2554979)

I don't understand why this isn't the dominant view of this disaster. A dam also broke and killed more people than Fukushima has to date. Nobody pays attention to such things because it doesn't have the novelty and sex appeal of a reactor meltdown.

The reactor was hit by a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions, it broke, it caused dangerous side effects. Congrats, welcome to the technological age. What happens when a tsunami or a 9.0 quake hits an LNG storage facility that creates a giant explosion that destroys a lot of real estate and kills a lot of people? Will people blame the technology of LNG or will they just blame the natural disaster?

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Re:Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may have too by Confusion on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @04:47AM (#2555758)

That is not overlooked: it's just that everyone agrees on that, so there's no need to 'discuss' those facts. The consequences of it have been spoken of at lengt, in both moving and practical ways.

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