8.9 earth quake + tsunami in Japan

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Angrist

So even if 1/10 of the country (it's less) was damaged, I bet that 9/10 can share their food. Heck, if they asked me, I would share my food.

From everything I've seen, the Japanese have handled this crisis extremely well. Most people who have homes are just staying there, not out trying to horde food or anything. People aren't looting.

I can't imagine if something like that were to happen here, especially in a larger city. It would be chaos.

[Professor S]

One thing to keep in mind as this progresses is that this is not a nuclear disaster, it is a natural one. One of the six largest earthquakes in history hit this structure followed by a tsunami and aftershocks. It's shocking that the entire area isn't GLOWING by now, much less that they've been able to handle everything as well as they have.

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.