San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies

[AtheistCrusader]

40. It's called english.

Core.

2. the central, innermost, or most essential part of anything.

Risk.

1. exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance:


In this case, I was referring to quake, and ancillary issues like tsunami. You cannot engineer away all potential risks here. This site is inherently dangerous, subject to exposure to direct quake related ground accelerations, and tsunami generated some distance away. Historically, this site has been exposed to tsunami that overtopped the current location of the top of the containment domes.

We engineer around expected risks. Again, worked great for the Tohoku quake... except for one site.

The consequences of losing against these risks, in the case of a reactor, are astronomical. In some respects, we got lucky in Fukushima. Reactor four was cold and offline. Pure luck.

A pacific coastal site seems an inherently bad idea.