[TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

[Bruce Freeman]

Then you'd have to use pumps to prevent flooding!  Which is worse?

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David E. Smucker
<davesmucker at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> It was all about capital cost -- or these units could have been built below
> sea level and easy to flood (and destroy) with sea water.  I raise a basic
> question here -- why not build all nuke plants below ground -- other than
> capital cost?
>
> Dave
>
-- 
Bruce
NJ