I started this as a Japan roundup, but most of the articles are about nuclear power on the whole. The situation in Japan is bad, as you’ll see from the links, but the debate over the future of nuclear power is front and center in the news as well.
Here’s a new, annotated satellite photo of the site.
TEPCO has nearly completed a power line that would get the electric cooling pumps up and running again at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
Americans are much less supportive of nuclear power now than they were just a week before the Japan earthquake. Personally, my problem with nuclear power is that even though it doesn’t fail often, it also doesn’t fail well. When something goes wrong, it goes really wrong, and the consequences are catastrophic.
Japan has only evacuated people in a 12-mile radius around the plant, but the US has told its citizens and military personnel to stay outside of 50 miles.
The radiation levels for workers at the plant may be at lethal levels.
Which US nuclear power plant is at the greatest risk? It’s not in California.
