• brianorca@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Fukushima was an older design. Newer reactors can handle a lack of active cooling. It was also a mistake to place the backup generators at ground level, instead of elevated like experts were recommending even before the disaster. And it wasn’t the earthquake that caused the problem, but the resulting tsunami and flooding, so most sites that are not on the coast don’t have that risk.