From: juan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] \> So after s quick search, seems that the
containment of the> general electric designed reactor(s) failed? Maybe
americunts
> should be paying damages?
If a court were to address the issue, I think the Japanese would lose,
primarily because it had been about 40 years before the earthquake/tsunami
occurred. The question would be, "Could the Japanese have prevented or
ameliorated the damages by modifying the equipment between 1970 and 2010?". I
think the answer is obviously "yes". They should have anticipated that a
tsunami would short out electrical lines outside the plant's walls, rendering
them unuseable. This was a fixable problem; they simply chose to continue to
operate the plant containing a known defect. Jim Bell
