Japan needed to build a type of nuclear plant that physically cannot meltdown if they were going to build one. (I.E. Molten Salt) They picked a type and location that was a collectively stupid decision from the very beginning.
It's like the people that intentionally built houses in areas of Louisiana that are below sea level. It doesn't matter if you think the levees won't fail, you just don't do something that is that ridiculously stupid like building residential areas below sea level in the first place. It doesn't matter if you think you won't have a problem building that type of reactor in that area, just don't do it.
To be fair to Japan, they are an island nation and don't have a lot of land area to potentially put a power plant on.
Then there's the USA.
Japan needed to build a type of nuclear plant that physically cannot meltdown if they were going to build one. (I.E. Molten Salt) They picked a type and location that was a collectively stupid decision from the very beginning.
It's like the people that intentionally built houses in areas of Louisiana that are below sea level. It doesn't matter if you think the levees won't fail, you just don't do something that is that ridiculously stupid like building residential areas below sea level in the first place. It doesn't matter if you think you won't have a problem building that type of reactor in that area, just don't do it.