San Onofre shutdown will mean tight electricity supplies

[AtheistCrusader]

108. Is the door designed not to slam shut on you?

If it's truly a big quake, you could be in there for a while. (A little bit like the retracted 'stand in a doorway/load bearing frame' urban legend. All well and good, except most doors today don't have load bearing frames at all, and if you find an old one that is, chances are the door is solid core wood, and it's going to kick your ass, getting slammed in it)

That said, yes, we can engineer structures to incredibly high tolerances. But did that happen at SONGS? Again, I am not speaking to the nuclear power industry in general, just to this particular site. (I gave the Columbia Generating Station as an example of a power plant sheltered from tsunami or seiche, but still having access to an enormous heat sink)

I think we have been given solid reason to question the engineering behind the SONGS site in general. This is not the first time that site has gone offline for an extended duration, for an issue that probably should have been a design consideration. The height of the sea wall suggests to me a similar underestimation in design, as the sea life clogging coolant inlets issue that knocked it offline after completing maintenance in 1980.