Firefighters and workers from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) are fighting to curb rising heat at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Over 1,000 tons of water have been sprayed on unit 3 to cool it off. Pressure rose in that unit but appears to have stabilized.
Units 1 and 2 are reportedly now connected to the electric grid and being tested. Units 5 and 6 now have cooling capability and power restored. Water has been reported in the storage pool of unit 4, although its status is otherwise unclear.
Food contamination has been found in local milk and spinach. For more information:
Updates from Japan provided by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Business insurers are reexamining nuclear power
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it is a tearable thing nuclear power is my worst nightmare and hopefully we all can do something to reduce the need for it i know it sounds kind of redundant and it realy is. we all go about our live with the light on but few even concider it that question where does it come from and what is it anyway? clean energy is a must do for human kind right now as soon as posable perpetual machienes or whatever that word is is the answer that everybody need to work towards i know it sounds like sience fiction but the answers are there let those sienctists work insted of standing in the way of sience fact wind is a wonder and so is water geothermal is the only fire i ever liked in energy besides the sun now magnetoes intreag me and so does machanics lets put those two together and get down the road with it. what i see for us all is a totale collaps of sociaty and civilasation as we know it if someone does not do something as miraculas tesla and edeson it is important to remember the inventors that gave of themselves so think what we can do with what they gave us to think about. love love and hate the hate dont ever be second rate