TEPCO Begins Removing the Water

From NucNet : Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has begun work to remove contaminated water that has accumulated in the turbine buil...

Thinking Out Loud

This is the kind of editorial that pops up more frequently, from the Lexington Herald-Leader (actually, an op-ed in this case): Shoul...

Asking the Expert

Dr. David Brenner, director of the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University offers interesting comments at the New York Ti...

Sunday Morning Update

From NEI’s Japan earthquake launch page: UPDATE AS OF 9:30 A.M. EDT, MARCH 27: Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers on Sunday were u...

Evening Update

From NEI’s Japan earthquake launch page: UPDATE AS OF 6 P.M. EDT, MARCH 26 At this time, sources such as the International Atomic Energy...

Pausing

Reuters has up a slide show of scenes from earthquake ravaged Japan. We really ought to pause, even on this blog, and acknowledge that Fuk...

Quick Hits: Electric Cars, Solar/Nuclear, China

What about electric cars ? Plans in Europe call for about 1 million EVs on the road by 2020, and a lot that push centers around increa...