Japan quakes

[saaya]

they had 2 backups, diesel and battery...
1. quake
2. reactors shut down
3. tsunami hits, electricity is lost, cooling systems stop
4. diesel backup generators turn on
5. diesel backup generators fail after a minute or two, probably damaged by the water... surprising that they turned on to begin with after the tsunami tbh...
6. battery backup kicked in cooling the reactors

the batteries lasted for a couple of hours, after that, cooling stopped...

the main flaw if you ask me is that they placed the diesel generators close to sea level... that doesnt make any sense whatsoever...
there are hills nearby, and they could have installed the generators at higher ground, making them tsunami safe...
having the pumps near sea level doesnt even make sense, but that wasnt the problem i think... but the generators... no idea why they did that...

i happen to know somebody who works at a high security server facility... and that thing is much safer than this reactor...
its deep underground, has several redundancies for every system, and would survive even if a nuke would explode right on top of it...
why they build server and government facilities this way and dont do it for reactors is beyond me...

and why they only started installing new power lines to the reactor almost one week after the disaster is beyond me as well...