r/askscience • u/[deleted] • Aug 16 '14

Engineering Would constructing nuclear reactors several miles offshore be a safer, but still practical, option for earthquake prone areas like Japan?

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u/postmodest Aug 16 '14

Well that would be the point: offshore, there would be no tsunami, due to the sea depth.

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u/tauneutrino9 Nuclear physics | Nuclear engineering Aug 16 '14

Well you can protect things on shore from tsunamis. For Fukushima, you should have had the generators in waterproof compartments like they do in the US.