“Tsunami, here, in Japan?” After Japan’s 9.0 magnitude quake, I wondered why anyone would position a nuclear power plant in a violent earthquake zone, where a tsunami might hit it. It turns out the planners and regulators were just categorically stupid: Yukinobu Okamura, a prominent seismologist, warned of a debilitating tsunami in June 2009 at [...]
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