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How Japan has prepared:

media type="youtube" key="no2iQziFKSA" height="390" width="640" To repeat, building codes ordain that structures be built this way. Furthermore, Japan ensures that every schoolchild participates in elaborate monthly earthquake drills, and the fire department is enlisted to help teach them what it actually feels like to be in an earthquake. Which is why the Telegraph reports that, as a result, “television footage from school and offices in Tokyo during Friday’s quake showed workers and students behaving with extraordinary calm and composure as buildings shook violently, sending files tumbling from desks and books from shelves.” The reporter was flabbergasted by the masses of children calmly forming lines at muster points, donning protective helmets. Finally, Japanese law ensures that there will be emergency rations in public buildings in the event that an earthquake strands people there. [] Ameren says they have taken extra precautions to avoid the problems an earthquake could cause."We have backup emergency diesel generators to supply emergency power, we have backup cooling water sources for emergency cooling water, and multiple ways we can safely shut the plant down in the event of natural disaster,” Rick Eastman of Ameren Missouri said.[]

Missouri's plans Rick Eastman with Ameren Missouri said they're prepared to avoid a disaster like the one in Japan. Reactors in the devastated country have been near meltdown since the earthquake because cooling systems are failing.