The engineer Y. Hirai at Onagawa insisted that the seawall be built to handle historically documented tsunami (the 869 A.D. one) in the region. No one at Fukushima insisted on this. The Onagawa plant
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The engineer Y. Hirai at Onagawa insisted that the seawall be built to handle historically documented tsunami (the 869 A.D. one) in the region. No one at Fukushima insisted on this. The Onagawa plant survived, its seawall wasn't overtopped. The Fukushima plant did not survive.
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