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Part of the reason for posting that was to illustrate the continuing, very real risks from hot particles in large areas of Japan. Sure, nobody died as a result of the failures of Fukushima. Immediately...
Which is admittedly kind of impressive given the level of failures suffered. But to use that as some sort of justification of solid fuel nuclear technology when it's going to render uninhabitable that much of a country for a considerable number of years and is almost certain to cause cancers and wreck the land-based food chain for an indeterminate amount of time. The consequences are far from trivial.
Regarding the wisdom of generator siting the Wiki gives some insight:
The reactor's emergency diesel generators and DC batteries, crucial components in powering the reactors' cooling systems in the event of a power loss, were located in the basements of the reactor turbine buildings. The reactor design plans provided by General Electric specified placing the generators and batteries in that location, but mid-level engineers working on the construction of the plant were concerned that this made the back up power systems vulnerable to flooding. TEPCO elected to strictly follow General Electric's design in the construction of the reactors.[60]
In the late 1990s to comply with new regulatory requirements, three additional backup generators for reactors Nos. 2 and 4 were placed in new buildings located higher on the hillside. All six reactors were given access to these generators, however the switching stations that sent power from these backup generators to the reactors' cooling systems for Units 1 through 5 were still in the poorly protected turbine buildings. All three of the generators added in the late 1990s were operational after the tsunami. If the switching stations had been moved to inside the reactor buildings or to other flood-proof locations, power would have been provided by these generators to the reactors' cooling systems.[77http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#cite_note-76
Which is admittedly kind of impressive given the level of failures suffered. But to use that as some sort of justification of solid fuel nuclear technology when it's going to render uninhabitable that much of a country for a considerable number of years and is almost certain to cause cancers and wreck the land-based food chain for an indeterminate amount of time. The consequences are far from trivial.
Regarding the wisdom of generator siting the Wiki gives some insight:
The reactor's emergency diesel generators and DC batteries, crucial components in powering the reactors' cooling systems in the event of a power loss, were located in the basements of the reactor turbine buildings. The reactor design plans provided by General Electric specified placing the generators and batteries in that location, but mid-level engineers working on the construction of the plant were concerned that this made the back up power systems vulnerable to flooding. TEPCO elected to strictly follow General Electric's design in the construction of the reactors.[60]
In the late 1990s to comply with new regulatory requirements, three additional backup generators for reactors Nos. 2 and 4 were placed in new buildings located higher on the hillside. All six reactors were given access to these generators, however the switching stations that sent power from these backup generators to the reactors' cooling systems for Units 1 through 5 were still in the poorly protected turbine buildings. All three of the generators added in the late 1990s were operational after the tsunami. If the switching stations had been moved to inside the reactor buildings or to other flood-proof locations, power would have been provided by these generators to the reactors' cooling systems.[77http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster#cite_note-76