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Sarah Laskow, The Media Consortium: 'Faced with the nuclear crisis in Japan, governments around the world are confronting the vulnerabilities of their nuclear energy programs. And while some European countries, such as Germany and France, are already considering more stringent safety measures - or backing off of nuclear development altogether - in the United States, the Obama administration is pushing forward with plans for increased nuclear energy production. Ultimately, these questions are the same that the country faced after last summer's Gulf Coast oil spill. As we search for more and more clever ways to fill our energy needs, can we write off the risk of disaster? Or are these large-scale catastrophes so inevitable that the only option is to stop pursuing the policies that lead to them?'

http://www.truth-out.org/saying-no-nuclear-option68577



Here, on the Other Side of the Ring of Fire

Alexander Cockburn, Truthout: 'Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of deepening catastrophe at Fukushima 1, speed to the pharmacy to buy iodine and ask, 'It's happened there; can it happen here?' Along much of California's coastline runs the 'ring of fire,' which stretches round the Pacific plate, from Australia, north past Japan, to Russia, round to Alaska, down America's West Coast to Chile. 90 percent of the world's earthquakes happen round the ring. The late great environmentalist David Brower used to tell audiences, 'Nuclear plants are incredibly complex technological devices for locating earthquake faults.'

http://www.truth-out.org/alexander-cockburn-here-other-side-ring-fire68574



Two Ghouls

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: 'Ive spent the last few days walking around my quiet little Boston neighborhood looking at the houses, the cars, the shops, the trees. I look at my wife, my neighbors, my cat. Then I close my eyes, and in that darkness I see it all wiped out, washed away, obliterated, shattered to kindling and utterly gone. I see a moonscape of annihilation, no reference points in sight, nothing familiar. I see the day after the end of everything, and the horror of it comes nowhere close to the reality that is Japan.'

http://www.truth-out.org/two-ghouls68579



Tepco, Security Sacrificed on the Altar of Profit

Rosa Moussaoui, l'Humanite: 'Profit at any price: This could be the motto of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the multinational that exploits the nuclear power plants at Fukushima. The largest producer of electricity in the world illustrates the excesses of an industrial sector in which neo-liberalism has unfurled to the last extremities of its destructive logic.'

http://www.truth-out.org/tepco-security-sacrificed-altar-profit68593

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Regulators Aware for Years of Understated Seismic Risks to Nuclear Plants
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/18-6

The Nuke Lobby has the US Regulatory Commission in Their Pocket
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/03/18-0

A Nuclear Warning from Japan We Cannot Ignore
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/18-9



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