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Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster
schwit1 writes World leaders have fretted for years that terrorists may try to steal one of Pakistan's nuclear bombs and detonate it in a foreign country. But some Karachi residents say the real nuclear nightmare is unfolding here in Pakistan's largest and most volatile city. Of all places to locate a nuclear reactor, they argue, who could possibly make a case for this one — on an earthquake-prone seafront vulnerable to tsunamis and not far from where al-Qaeda militants nearly hijacked a Pakistan navy vessel last fall.
The al-Qaeda militants would probably scale a mountain to try and reach this reactor. It really doesn't matter if it's build near a military base or near a Saudi royals palace. It's a target.
What you do however is treat that nuclear plant like a major asset, and have military garrison around it. Deter al-Qaeda, deter Greenpeace, deter crazy assholes in general. Why not deter your own corrupt military officers from trying to sieze you by the balls in the process?
IUTBATM... I used to be a tsunami modeler.
There isn't a 1:1 relationship between earthquake magnitude and runup. There are some rules of thumb, but it depends on the faults in the area, if there is risk of landslides, the geometry of the ocean floor, the topography around the power plant, if the risk comes more from local earthquakes or ones on the other side of the ocean basin....
Hopefully, whoever quoted the numbers for Pakistan has already done the study for the region; I haven't worked too much in that region myself so I don't know numbers offhand. But that 40m you mention was in a very specific location (plus, can't you even cite slashdot? http://science-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/09/27/0225233/underwater-landslide-may-have-doubled-2011-japanese-tsunami )
For reference, if you hear a number, hopefully they've already done such a study... usually takes one or three people a few months to a few years to do a thorough analysis (plus depending on the model, could be a fair amount of computer time), depending on how important the project is. And if it's below about a 7.5, there is usually no tsunami risk except maybe locally at the source.
that is precisely what the powers-that-be want
paklistan is full of conspiratorial minded morons
every tragedy or event in pakistan, where pakistanis can face their shortcomings, come to grips with it, and move forward: nope. instead loopy hilarious conspiracies that shifts blame to the west, to the jews, to india, to iran, etc. keeps them mired in poverty, backwardness, blind denial, strife, and stupidity. every problem in pakistan is never the fault of pakistanis, it's all due to plots and secret cabals and manipulations from abroad. fucking ignorant bullsit
here in the west we can safely laugh at paranoid schizophrenic low iq conspiracy minded douchebags. such losers are everywhere in the world. but a free society with free speech and a free press, the full light of day reveals their delusional rantings, they are ridiculed, and they are safely exiled to the backseat of the short bus and only are compelling to weak minded ignorant halfwits
but in countries where lies, censorship, prideful ethnic and sectarian denial, etc. dominates, the mental diarrhea of conspiracies has a great power and takes hold in that darkness of no free thought, no free press, no free speech
so when i see you write "that is precisely what the powers-that-be want", all i think is yup: there's another fucking problem with pakistan: conspiracy theory nutcases everywhere
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You know the other reactor built to withstand a Tsunami - Yeah, Fukushima, they said there would never be a Tsunami big enough to do it any harm. Was it true? No.
Karachi is exposed to tsunami's coming from the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. To say the geography bears no resemblance when the places mentioned are geographically nearby on the same coast is quite frankly absurd - India was hit by 11meter tsunami from the same earthquake that wiped away Pakistani towns and the whole area is seismically active.
Map of last 40 years earthquakes only:
http://ds.iris.edu/ieb/index.h...
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That's exactly the point. They destroy tech and education and social artifacts because they know that the more desperate and hopeless and disconnected the people feel, the more of them will turn to extremism and the easier the rest will be to control.
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