Floating nuclear plants could ride out tsunamis
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 08:21
in Physics & Chemistry
When an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant complex in 2011, neither the quake nor the inundation caused the ensuing contamination. Rather, it was the aftereffects—specifically, the lack of cooling for the reactor cores, due to a shutdown of all power at the station—that caused most of the harm.