One year after Fukushima Daiichi meltdown
March 10th, 2012
I live in Red Wing, home to two nuclear reactors. This week I hope you all will take some time to reflect on the mess at Fukushima Daiichi and the role of nuclear generators in our energy scheme. It was a year ago today when Fukushima Daiichi reactors melted down.
When Fukushima Daiichi first blew up, I spent some time tracking down every shred of info, which wasn’t much. That there was so little information available was startling, and that was emphasized by my blog stats which showed 4,00o+ hits in just one day, people trying desperately to find out what was going on.
For an overview of how difficult it was to get information, and the struggles of even NRC personnel, from Marketplace earlier this week:
From the New York Times:
The Wiki is packed with info:
Here’s what I’d posted then:
March 13th, 2012 at 7:13 am
I’ve been in one of those old boiling water reactors, looking down into the high-in-the-air fuel pool. Plainly these plants need to be phased out ASAP.