The good news for college parents and students is that colleges have disaster plans, evacuation procedures and facilities in place to keep students as safe as possible.
Japan gets approximately one-third of its electricity from nuclear power plants, and the disaster zone was home to three separate major nuclear facilities, two of which are experiencing failures so deep that mitigation efforts are likely to take them offline permanently.
In a traditional physical environment, a typical approach would involve signing multiple years worth of contracts that are locked in with traditional IT vendors covering managed services, co-location facilities, or even building new data centers for disaster recovery.
Mr Oettinger was outlining plans for the tests - ordered in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster - which are designed to see how Europe's nuclear facilities are able to withstand natural or man-made disasters.
The panel's report on the Tsuruga plant is the first to be compiled out of the six facilities the watchdog has decided to inspect following the 2011 Fukushima disaster.