Learning the lessons of Fukushima
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Among the lessons to be learned from the accident at Japans Fukushima Daichii nuclear powerplant, according to a new report from MIT, are that emergency generators should be better protected from flooding and other extreme natural events, and that increasing the spacing between reactors at the same site would help prevent an incident at one reactor from damaging others nearby.