Subject: Re: Nuclear Power! Woo Hoo
Except that when presented with the evidence that Fukushima had a seriously outdated design (it didn't fail to safe and scram the reactor when the power failed) and that its backup power was so poorly sited so as to defy description (they put the backup generator on the beach, so it was the first thing the tsunami took out), they still lost their minds.

Except that off the top of my head this is factually incorrect. They went down to the bedrock and built up from there. They designed the protective walls for the height and type of wave they thought would come. The quake that set of the tsunami actually lowered the reactor site 3 feet, then the wave incoming wave was larger. So it overpowered that barrier wall. The backup generators were inside the wall but at almost inside ground level, so they got knocked out, with one operational.

It did shut down the reactor on detection of the quake, it couldn't maintain cooling the hot reactors.