Japan nuclear situation

It looks worse every time I check the news, and doubtless the current situation is worse than the news media has been able to discover. Normally one would say “multiple heads are sure to roll after this,” but that will be trivial when it happens compared to the damage that has apparently been done by not designing plants to withstand huge earthquakes and tsunamis in a part of the world regularly hammered by huge earthquakes and tsunamis. For all I know, maybe there’s no way to construct plants to that level of durability, but if that’s the case, then Japan shouldn’t have them anyway.

As for the death toll, I’m hearing 5,000 unaccounted for in one place, and a town of 20,000 where half are unaccounted for. So, it still seems likely that the dead will be in the tens of thousands.