Well, at the least, when the final investigation report eventually comes out it should make interesting reading.
It appears to me that this incident would have been caused by the tsunami alone. At some point you have to choose an arbitrary level to design to. I imagine this plant was designed to withstand a tsunami of level Y (100 year tsunami?) and this was just one of level Y+epsilon.
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- Tom S.
"Never trust and engineer who doesn't carry a pocketknife."