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March 15, 2011

The image is of a lone Japanese woman surrounded by mounds of incredible rubble from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan:

TraumJJapanearthquake.jpg Jeremy Traum

There are increasing fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It is difficult to understand what exactly is happening at the damaged nuclear plants. It appears that there is a meltdown in the core and some radiation released, but no major leak.

Japan is struggling to prevent nuclear catastrophe at its reactors in the days since a massive earthquake and tsunami knocked out power, crippling cooling systems needed to keep nuclear fuel from melting down.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 10:22 PM |