Apparently not all current nuclear problems are in Japan. Mexico too has nuclear power and it does not seem to prosper there.

This is a fascinating article which was very much a surprise to me. But that’s the great pleasure of the thousands of internet sites – the opportunity to learn.

James Pilant

Yikes… yesterday’s 6.5 – 6.7 Richter scale earthquake in Veracruz State (felt throughout the southern and eastern parts of the country, but certainly not here on the northwest coast) did only “minor” damage to Mexico’s one and only nuclear power plant… or so we’re being told. Laguna Verde is “only” twenty plus years old, and has supposedly been being upgraded the last few years.  Officially it has a good safety record, although, just over a w … Read More

via The Mex Files