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Some lessons learned: Keep the generators on the ground level, and have solar back-up to run the cooling system. Triple redundancy. If the plant had electricity this never would have happened. Also, I think keeping spent fuel on site should be re-examined.
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Personally, I think the lesson learned should be "Find a different type of energy that won't possibly devastate your local (or any far away) area. I'm just not a fan of Nuclear power for reasons like this. Sure, they're safe when they're working - but when they fail - they fail magnificently. It just added an un-needed disaster to this already terrible disaster. It's like those pimp my ride memes. "Yo dog, we heard you like disasters, so we put a disaster in your disaster so you can panic while you suffer."
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Also, people here are suddenly buying emergency stock and kits (or whatever it's called). Takes a disaster to be prepared for one?
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Some people here have been doing that, too. Granted, Vancouver is overdue for an earthquake on par, or worse than what hit Japan (Science forbid). I have a hard time watching BBC with all the Japan coverage without working myself into a worried fit of "That's going to fucking happen here."