Reply #14

I never said I was a "against doing anything that would stop the next Fukushima"...

... I simply laughed at the ridiculous notion that you think you proposed something that would have stopped this one.

Propose moving generators (or adding them) well above where a tsunami could strike. Propose putting them in water-tight structures. Propose not building nuclear plants in tsunami-prone areas. Propose a backup turbine options that allows one reactor to provide backup power for others. Propose increasing battery supplies tenfold. Propose any number of further-redundant backup options... all fine.

But let's not pretend that "if they had only had solar panels at Fukushima... the reactors would have been saved!" That's just nonsense.

The tsunami hit just a couple hours before sundown. It's unlikely that a solar power system would have survived the earthquake/tsunami in the first place, but if it had... solar PV systems still need to deal with what we call "night".