Here's another quote from officials in Japan just released that documents how inadequate the tsunami walls were at the Fukushima-1 nuclear complex:

"Now it seems the safety measure that was put in place around that particular facility could have handled a 5.4m high wave but not the kind of waves that it saw on March 11. Some of them reached as high as 14m," Ortigas said.

The same could be said about the two similar nuclear plants on the coast of California which the NRC refuses to shut down.

Charley Noble