I have to apologize. I thought it was stupid to put power plants right on the ocean so that tsunami could batter them. Obviously, the placement is perfect since all the primary systems and back-up systems are going to fail in a major quake, so they have to have lots of water nearby to pump into the reactor container.
If the plants had been inland, there would have been not nearly enough water.
Look how many nuclear plants are on the water. Up front, it is explained by the ease of having the cooling water nearby. In actuality, it is designed that way for the inevitable threat of melt-down: Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island, now Fukushima... the chances of a major nuclear accident seem to be greater than once every ten years.
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