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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Hi,
So, do we move the ones that are on the shore, or shut them down? What about the plants on or near known active faults or earthquake areas?
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This plant (and all the others in japan) survived the "largest quake recorded ever" and shut down safely. This plant had problems because power from outside needed to keep the cooling systems running failed due to the effects of the wave.
It wasn't actually effected by the wave itself.
The obvious safety review result is to make sure that the cooling systems have local power provided from generators installed which will probably run on fossil fuels - oil and diesel.
Then of course you have to ensure these backup systems have fuel which has not "gone off" (remember petrol/diesel does not age well so you cannot store it forever) and that they can be replenished before they run out - which means that the local oil storage/refining/importing facility is intact, the tankers/pipelines are still running and the roads are usable.
So it all comes down to oil in the end.
