Fukushima Daiichi: It May Be Too Late Unless the Military Steps In

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51. He's seen them up close?

He's been inside unit 4 and has a structural engineering backgroud sufficient to make the judgement? He had a Schmidt hammer with him and they let him use it?

Just because a building has survived several quakes doesn't mean it is dishonest to claim it can't stand another.

Yes actually, that's exactly what it means. It would be false (but not dishonest) to doubt whether or not it could survive an imagined large quake (which would be true for any structure)... but not to claim that it cannot.

Each successive quake further stresses and weakens the structure.

That's not actually true... but it's also irrelevant. There's an enourmous margin between it's designed characteristics (intended to keep the core safe) and the much lower threshold necessary to simply remain standing.