{"id":1012,"date":"2014-11-02T08:18:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T13:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2014-11-02T08:18:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T13:18:45","slug":"california-could-suffer-a-fukushima-style-meltdown-washingtons-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown Washington&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/11\/fukushima-california.html\">California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown Washington&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: normal; color: #000099; line-height: 1.5em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">U.S. Ignoring Earthquake Risks to Nuclear Plants<\/h3>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Scientists\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"warned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/11\/engineers-knew-fukushima-might-be-unsafe-but-covered-it-up-and-now-the-extreme-vulnerabilty-of-new-u-s-plants-is-being-covered-up.html\">warned<\/a>\u00a0that an earthquake could take out Fukushima. The Japanese\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"ignored the warning \u2026 and even tore down the natural seawall which protected Fukushima from tidal waves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/11\/tepco-destroyed-the-natural-seawall-which-would-have-protected-fukushima-from-the-tsunami.html\">ignored the warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">(The Fukushima reactors were\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"damaged by the earthquake before the tsunami hit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/07\/japanese-parliamentary-inquiry-fukushima-disaster-caused-by-collusion-among-government-regulators-and-tepco.html\">damaged by the earthquake\u00a0<em style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">before<\/em>\u00a0the tsunami hit<\/a>, because the design of the reactors was\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"fatally defective\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/06\/nuclear-reactor-design-chosen-not-because-it-was-safe-but-because-it-worked-on-navy-submarines.html\">defective<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">But that couldn\u2019t happen in the U.S. \u2026 right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Well, the engineers who built the Fukushima reactors also built a nuclear reactor at Shoreham, New York \u2026 which is highly\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"the engineers who built the Fukushima nuclear plants knew their design would fail in an earthquake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/completely-and-utterly-fail-in-an-earthquake\/\" target=\"_blank\">vulnerable to an earthquake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px 3em 0px 3em; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earthquake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could<strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">\u201ccompletely and utterly fail<\/strong>\u201d during an earthquake.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"Indeed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/11\/engineers-knew-fukushima-might-be-unsafe-but-covered-it-up-and-now-the-extreme-vulnerabilty-of-new-u-s-plants-is-being-covered-up.html\">Indeed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Could Suffer a Fukushima-Style Meltdown Washington&#8217;s Blog. U.S. Ignoring Earthquake Risks to Nuclear Plants Scientists\u00a0warned\u00a0that an earthquake could take out Fukushima. The Japanese\u00a0ignored the warning. (The Fukushima reactors were\u00a0damaged by the earthquake\u00a0before\u00a0the tsunami hit, because the design of the reactors was\u00a0defective.) But that couldn\u2019t happen in the U.S. \u2026 right? Well, the engineers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[221,340,578,580],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-earthquake","tag-fukushima","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}