Fukushima Nuclear Plant

This is a link to an article in the New York Times. If there is a simple lesson, it is that society ignores advances in science at its own peril.

WORLD | March 27, 2011
Japanese Rules for Nuclear Plants Relied on Old Science
By NORIMITSU ONISHI and JAMES GLANZ
For decades, Japanese officialdom and even parts of its engineering establishment clung to older scientific precepts for protecting nuclear plants.

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Here is a link to a similar article in the Japan times:

Signs of disaster were there to see | The Japan Times Online
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110327a3.html