[NoOneNew]

I can't find the article for the life of me. From what I can remember, it was soon after the disaster, something came out about another plant that was "hit" by high waters as well. The difference was, their seawall was stupid high. One of the civic engineers during development fought tooth and nail to build the excessively high wall compared to what the gov building code was. If I remember correctly, it ended up being only a two or so meters taller than the tsunami that hit them. The engineer had a really baller statement in the article about how bureaucrats are useless and shouldn't have an opinion when it comes to life safety. I wish I could find it.

[samizdis]

This one, maybe?

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2012/08/how_tenacity_a_wa...

[NoOneNew]

How the hell did you find it so quick?

I'm surprised I remembered it relatively well. Though, 1 meter buffer between the tsunami and seawall and the politician quote is better in his words:

>"Matsunaga-san hated bureaucrats," Oshima said. "He said they are like human trash. In your country, too, there are probably bureaucrats or officials who never take final responsibility.

[samizdis]

Divination via DuckDuckGo :-)

From words in your comment, I used this search string: japan nuclear plant saved engineer battle high sea wall

The result was third in the returned list. (Settings - safe search off, global region selected.)

Edit to amend: words and concepts in your comment. Also, I'm chuffed to have been able to be of use.

[NoOneNew]

You... you're beautiful. Thank you. You may have just made me a convert to DDG.

[samizdis]

Aw! The beautiful person in this effort was Karen Spärck Jones [1], who gave us tf–idf [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_document_frequency

But thank you.