# Japan's nuclear power plants

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 12, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japans-nuclear-power-plants/574382 "2011-03-12T05:49:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japans-nuclear-power-plants/574382/61 "2011-03-14T17:53:49Z")

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> [@Hyperelastic](#):
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> That wasn’t a containment of any kind, it was a sheet metal “shed” on top of the containment to protect the overhead crane from the weather. The concrete containment still appears to be completely intact.

Not only that, but the outer building was \*designed \*to give way in the event of an explosion so that pressure would not damage the containment dome proper.

Just as not understanding this blows away constanze’s credibility.

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