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This report directly disagrees with Further, at the time of its commissioning, the tsunami it experienced was accepted by the best engineering data at the time to be impossible. Directly.

This part uses scare quotes to describe the 'quality' of the work:

Its initial application was based on the 3.122 m measurement local tsunami height (above Onahama Peil (O.P.) reference sea level), observed during the 1960 Great Chilean tsunami at or close to Fukushima [32]. The flooding estimate was provided to the nearest millimetre, underscoring a false sense of accuracy in the safety assessment that is impossible even today. With hindsight, it also underscores the ‘quality’ of the engineering work and of its review.

parent maxerickson 11 years ago

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