ralphchadkirk
Established Member
Interesting that, but I think it's a bit of red herring. My understanding is that it is not the earthquake that is causing the present problems with the reactors but the combination of earthquake and then tsunami. The reactors behaved as intended during and in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake (i.e. they shut down and switched to back up generators) however when the tsunami hit it knocked out the generators (leaving the cooling running on short term batteries) and caused further damage that has now led to the present situation. If it had just been an earthquake I don' think we would be having the present problems.
That was my understanding of it. It's a testament to modern engineering that you can build reactors to withstand earthquakes though!
The same time being three minutes difference?See me and ainsworth74 posted almost exactly the same at the same time!

