The diesel generators flooded and that’s why the plant failed. The generators were asininely low; one was even in the basement. And yet it was built to code - the code simply had an oversight, as they often do. They could have built for 100 meter waves but if the design didn’t require sufficiently elevated generators, this was still going to happen.
The generator failure was known pretty immediately iirc but here is a source from USC (2015).
I knew a guy who worked at a hydro plant in a relatively remote area who gave up his car and walked a narrow, winding, mountainous road to work every day after the accident. He did so for years and may still do so. One man making what protest he can against our reckless growth. The accident rejuvenated the anti-nuclear sentiment all around. But the right-wing government has been working for years to counter them and is now planning new reactors. I don’t consider myself anti-nuclear but I think they are the wrong tool for the job. I’ve been ranting for years and now we are out of time. Plus regulation upheld by complex governments will suffer when society goes through a major simplification event (due to climate change). I already find building them in the Ring of Fire to be questionable, even with strong regulations.
It’s actually a bit worse than that.
The diesel generators flooded and that’s why the plant failed. The generators were asininely low; one was even in the basement. And yet it was built to code - the code simply had an oversight, as they often do. They could have built for 100 meter waves but if the design didn’t require sufficiently elevated generators, this was still going to happen.
The generator failure was known pretty immediately iirc but here is a source from USC (2015).
I knew a guy who worked at a hydro plant in a relatively remote area who gave up his car and walked a narrow, winding, mountainous road to work every day after the accident. He did so for years and may still do so. One man making what protest he can against our reckless growth. The accident rejuvenated the anti-nuclear sentiment all around. But the right-wing government has been working for years to counter them and is now planning new reactors. I don’t consider myself anti-nuclear but I think they are the wrong tool for the job. I’ve been ranting for years and now we are out of time. Plus regulation upheld by complex governments will suffer when society goes through a major simplification event (due to climate change). I already find building them in the Ring of Fire to be questionable, even with strong regulations.