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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Couldn't we also say that the piss poor design of the Mark 1 Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is a "human error" as well? If it didn't have such glaring flaws, perhaps the natural disaster portion of this would have been a moot point and there wouldn't be an emergency in the first place.
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Sure could, but bottom line is that nothing natural caused the Chernobyl "accident."
They were testing the safety systems at Chernobyl and were trying to make it safer in light of knowing they didn't have the proper systems in place - their experiment failed and snowballed into the clusterfuck it became.
I don't know much about the Nuclear Plant in Japan but if they weren't prepared for an earthquake... they should have been. It's stupid to spend that much money on making power, knowing that if something happens it's going to completely ruin the area for 25+ years... and not putting the correct safety procedures or equipment in place regardless of the cost. It's not like they're working with gas or water... they're working with fuel that will stay 'burning' for 50+ years.