by the sea?
"Faith in Japanese authorities may be hard to sustain given they allowed construction of a nuclear plant by the sea, in an earthquake-prone country, and gave it redundancy rigs that did not survive a foreseeable combination of events"
Ummm. First part, next to the sea is a very good place to build nuclear plants. Look at where all the UK's are.
But the second bit, yes, the problem with that one was the engineers allowed for a once-in-a-hundred-years sort of earthquake and tsunami, when they should have allowed for a once in a thousand years event. There was another nuclear power complex a few miles away where the engineers built adequate earthquake/tsunami defences, which explains why I can't remember what it's called