Reply #8: Delusional

[Someguyinjapan]

The Japanese are no more or less intelligent; you are making the same tiresome mistake that so many people do in equating superior technical expertise with superior overall collective intelligence. If your hypothesis about the Japanese holds true, then:

A) Why were the Japanese, despite their technical brilliance, forced to such tactics such as cooling the reactor rods by water cannon and air-dropping water from helicopters?

B) Why did TEPCO completely fail in addressing inherent site design flaws, despite having upwards of 40 years to do so?

C) Why were the Japanese-despite their technical brilliance-forced to call for outside help in dealing with the crisis at Fukushima during it's initial stages?

Your premise is incredibly flawed, and unless this was an attempt at satire that I completely missed, you will come to realize as I have that a society that still relies on a thousand year-old piece of technology instead of a f_cking signature to complete the most rudimentary of transactions and has yet to discover the wonders of central heating and building insulation has a LONG way to go before they are ready to tackle the complexities of wide-scale nuclear decontamination.