by cincinnatus » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:49 pm
I hate to do this...
RE the argument of "How many civilians have been injured to-date by the Fukushima Daiichi reactor incident?"
...isn't the answer to that "wait?" Maybe 30-years from now there will be a study to compare cancer rates between the 30-yrs prior to the incident, and the 30-yrs after...I sincerely hope that the answer to that is not statistically significant.
(FWIW: as long as we're playing Captain Hindsight--again, South Park nails the satire--my humble suggestion would be critical node analysis, which may have indicated the aux generators, which may have indicated a need for a higher seawall specifically around that critical node, versus the whole coastline. But, I don't fault the 40-yr old engineering design that only took into account the last 1,000 years, versus 1,200. It's pretty obvious the interval could have been 1,000,000 and it wouldn't satisfy certain critics.)