Are Japan Nuclear Fears Overblown?

Josh Dzieza, The Daily Beast
Shortly after Japan was hit with the double disaster of a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, a possible third reared its head: nuclear meltdown. The quake caused 11 of Japan's nuclear reactors to shut down automatically, including three at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, 170 miles northeast of Tokyo. But the quake also cut Fukushima off from the power grid, forcing plant operators to switch to emergency diesel generators in order to continue cooling the reactor core, generators that then failed shortly after the tsunami hit.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/13/are_japan_nuclear_fears_overblown_251922.html

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