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Re: Fukushima

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Absolutley fascinating. Great reporting - I don't want to say an "enjoyable" read, but certainly very engaging and interesting.

Re: Fukushima

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post #2

Absolutley fascinating. Great reporting - I don't want to say an "enjoyable" read, but certainly very engaging and interesting.

Agreed, there's a morbid curiosity behind ghost towns due to nuclear disasters.

Re: Fukushima

#5
> The disaster could have been forseen and prevented. As in the Chernobyl case, it was a human, not technology, that was mainly responsible for the disaster.

It's always easy to say that with hindsight. Remind me, how frequent are Magnitude 9 earthquakes resulting in massive Tsunami?

Of course you can plan for everything, but there's always something that occurs you did not think of. The good thing is, we learn from previous mistakes and plan better accordingly next time.

> Have we learnt anything since then?

Nice punchline to finish your article, nihilist-like, but completely nonsensical. Of course we have learnt a lot since Chernobyl, and designed subsequent plants to be much more safe based on what happened there.

Re: Fukushima

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Great photographs. Especially the cars in the grass starting to be overgrown are a 'great' and instant classic post apocalyptic image. Makes you think about the costs of our 'innovations' in general too. This is the wasteland of nuclear energy gone wrong, but there are other wastelands like this one, albeit figuratively speaking.

Re: Fukushima

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post #5

> The disaster could have been forseen and prevented. As in the Chernobyl case, it was a human, not technology, that was mainly responsible for the disaster. It's always easy to say that with hindsight. Remind me, how frequent are Magnitude 9 earthquakes resulting in massive Tsunami? Of course you can plan for everything, but there's always something that occurs you did not think of. The good thing is, we learn from…

Don Norman, the author of "The Design of Everyday Things", writes that in most cases when the fault is attributed to human operator, it is actually a design error.
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