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I don't understand why this isn't the dominant view of this disaster. A dam also broke and killed more people than Fukushima has to date. Nobody pays attention to such things because it doesn't have the novelty and sex appeal of a reactor meltdown.

The reactor was hit by a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions, it broke, it caused dangerous side effects. Congrats, welcome to the technological age. What happens when a tsunami or a 9.0 quake hits an LNG storage facility that creates a giant explosion that destroys a lot of real estate and kills a lot of people? Will people blame the technology of LNG or will they just blame the natural disaster?




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