The Onogawa Plant didn't have an Accident!

Tohoku Electric - Onogawa Plant

Yes, there are several other nuclear plants in Tohoku. Not connected to Tokyo Electric.
But they have not made the news.
And why is that? Well, they didn't have an accident, that is why.

What was the difference?

Well, for one thing, the Onogawa Plant had built a higher water break in the ocean - some 5.5 meters or so, higher than the Fukushima plant. Also, they were on a 14.8 meter hill. Still they were hit by the tsunami a little bit, but not enough to do any damage, any BIG damage.

And the little town down the road was ruined, completely ruined like everywhere else. So what happened? --The Tohoku Electric plant at Onogawa opened its gym to the town's people who now live there and they are taken care of by the plant people and others!!! The plant is helping to feed them! Why, because this plant is safe and the people feel safe - one lady said that usually she wouldn't like to stay there, but that she felt safe now. The director was on TV and he said, "We usually wouldn't allow non-plant people to stay in the gym, but this is a special case (I am paraphrasing  ;-). I can also say, that the director sort of looked down his nose at the Fukushima plant, in his tone of voice...he said they are proud of the fact that they built on higher land. But, one professor in the same interview also admitted that non of the nuclear plants had really thought about tsunamis when they were being built. And that problem was left alone for decades. It seems the tsunami problem was on the agenda to be discussed in coming years.