This is a very good essay about the crisis. It focuses on the failures of the Japanese government and the nuclear industry in that country. It’s a good read.

James Pilant

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, activists hold a candlelight vigil, to call attention to nuclear dangers and express solidarity with the Japanese people, outside the White House in Washington DC yesterday. Japan’s government admitted yesterday that its safeguards were insufficient to protect a nuclear plant against the earthquake and tsunami that crippled the facility and caused it to spew radiation, and it vowed to overhaul … Read More

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