re: #196 Walter L. Newton

And correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that from the git-go, they lost all power and any emergency power, and there for they couldn’t control/activate/turn on etc. anything to help them shut down safely?

I read that they did have an automatic shutdown, and that they had battery backup for that purpose, but that would not have been enough to run ongoing cooling as well.

I wonder if they designed for a 9.0 quake and if there wasn’t other relevant quake damage that we haven’t heard about (aside from tsunami).