His skydiving was fine. His groundstopping needs work.

It's the same as when we're trying to exploit any other hazardous resource. We have almost a century of nuclear experience, and even Chernobyl, which was allegedly a piece of junk even when it was built, lasted a decade before a cascade of human bungeling did it in. If those generators had been sufficiently elevated…

Gawker and the report are both critical of the response to the crisis, but has there been much criticism of the design of the plant itself? Somebody, I'm pretty sure it was Neil deGrasse Tyson, remarked in the months afterwards that Fukushima was rather stupidly designed, noting specifically that the back-up…