Isabelle Boemeke

And, you know, it's one of those things that like if it was all condensed in one tiny block instead of like fuel pellets.

And then also you have to account for the way nuclear waste is kept now.

It's put inside of big dry casks.

So these are like giant Pringles cans that are made of concrete because concrete is very good at blocking radiation.

So they would say, well, but what about the concrete and blah, blah, blah.

So we're oversimplifying, but it still gets the point across, you know.

Yeah, exactly.

So Fukushima was one of those, much like the hydropower dam collapse in China, was one of those unforeseen, you know, nature things.

This was a huge earthquake that then caused a massive tsunami.

And Fukushima was caught in both.

Right.

So it went through the earthquake.

And it was actually fine going through the earthquake.

The system shut down as they were supposed to.

The problem happened when the tsunami came.

And the tsunami made it through the power plant's seawall and inundated the basement level, which is where all the diesel generators were.

Now, because nuclear reactors get really hot, they need to be cooled like we talked about.

They also need to be cooled after they shut down for a period of time to avoid an accident because there is still some heat that's being put out.

And so when the diesel generators were inundated and there was no electricity to the power plant, the reactor couldn't cool itself.

And so that's what caused the Fukushima accident.