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Originally Posted by dvarapala
That was the 9.0 earthquake that took out the Fukushima-Daiichi reactor.  |
As a point of clarification the earthquake didn’t damage the plant or reactors. The earthquake knocked out all power in the area, and the tsunami flooded the plant’s emergency diesel generators. That’s what caused the reactor damage.
I’ve been on the coast north of the plant where the tsunami wiped several towns off the map and killed over 15,000 people. It’s amazing to see and incredibly sad that nobody remembers how many were killed by the flooding while nobody was hurt by the melted reactors.