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Originally Posted by GenghisTron

The japanese have properly engineered an energy infrastructure, meanwhile here in the US, it's virtually crumbling, and we're fucking flat broke. Japan endured the biggest Earthquake in 50 years, were blasted with gigantic tsunamis, and they still managed to not have a complete nuclear meltdown. Russia, on the other hand, couldn't put a toaster together that couldn't break, and they managed to absolutely devastate an entire region of land, on a completely normal, non-threatening day. The effects of which, we still see today, which hundreds of thousands of mentally retarded, physically handicapped radioactive children, whose existence are being hidden from the world by international organizations.

Japan managed to go through all this shit, and leak only a minimal amount of radiation, meanwhile the Wrath of Motherfucking Zeus rained down upon their country. Do me a favor, and stop making threads.

Japan is actually a bit behind on their Nuclear Reactor technology.

Reactor Design in Japan has long been questioned.

The type of containment vessel and pressure suppression system used in the failing reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant — and in 23 American reactors at 16 plants — is physically less robust, and it has long been thought to be more susceptible to failure in an emergency than competing designs.

G.E. began making the Mark 1 boiling water reactors in the 1960s, marketing them as cheaper and easier to build — in part because they used a comparatively smaller and less expensive containment structure.

American regulators began identifying weaknesses very early on.


Still, Japan's reaction to this catastrophe and their efforts to minimize Nuclear contamination have been very impressive.