The boobs?

Yes, the great concrete titties.

It'll be interesting to see the public reaction, I guess there are already nuclear protesters in Germany, and I don't think the Rhein has ever seen a Tsunami. I'm sure this will be analyzed in depth and more secondary and tertiary levels of safety will be developed and required.

I believe in San Onofre the reactor vessel is located below sea level, so in the event of failures of all the back-up systems, the containment structure could be flooded with sea water to cool the reactor.

So we can all go to the beach and enjoy some poached fish! Yum! ;)

That's better than the alternative, though.....

What's happening in Japan is just awful.

Two excellent articles in the WSJ that cut through all the nuclear hysteria:

One

Two

I don't know. To me, rushing to judgment to say there's nothing to worry about is its own form of hysteria.

At least they didn't blame Obama.

What gets me is the people saying "it could be another Three Mile Island" as if that is a horrible thing. Other than scaring people and rendering a reactor inoperable, TMI didn't really do any damage.

I recall stories of tainted crops and milk production - not sure how that compares to petrochemical disasters.

Well... There really isn't much to worry about. The media just loves to fan the hysteria.

The earthquake and tsunami have killed over 2000 that we know of, and possibly as many as 10,000. The nuclear power plant? None.