Bob3

Very true, though the placement & design of the emergency cooling / fire pumping system comes into question.

The Chernobyl reactor had control rods that needed to be lowered by hand - and there was no rope connecting them so there was no way to scram the reactor short of crawling up a ladder & cutting them down!!!
Add to that they were conducting an overload test at the time where the output spiked beyond any measurable amount at least twice prior to the "flies hitting the Westinghouse" & it becomes more a case of "how hard do you actually have to try in order to melt down a reactor" rather than it being just "wrong".

Out here in CA they didn't seem to have any problems placing reactor complexes in close proximity to known fault lines though.
Only 1, the Humboldt Bay, has been shut down but spent fuel rods are typically kept on-site even at decommissioned sites and could be subject to problems resulting from a hefty quake.

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momoese

San Onofre was only built to withstand a 7.0 earthquake.

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Gardener972

So sad but not surprising. IMO, people should be evacuated in a broader zone from the plant.