As this story was being written, reports from Japan suggest that a full meltdown of the nuclear cores in two reactors at the country’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station may not be averted. Japanese officials have already acknowledged a “partial” melting of the two cores. Speculation that there will be a “Tchernobyl-type” catastrophe is fast growing.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/10785. Top global producers of uranium include Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. See http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/japan-quake-uranium-idUSN1418047020110314. Among the top ten banks funding nuclear power are Barclays, RBS and HSBC. See http://www.nuclearbanks.org/#/home. For updates on Japan’s Nuclear Crisis, see: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/ http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/Fukushimafactsheet.pdf http://www.nukefree.org/ http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant highly likely Japan’s chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said that a meltdown was “highly likely” at three of the plant’s nuclear reactors on the country’s shattered northeastern coast, the Kyodo news agency reported. See http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/japan-earthquake-new-explosion-rocks-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant/story-e6frev00-1226021506205. Uranium shares fall as Japan battles meltdown http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uranium-shares-fall-as-japan-battles-meltdown-2011-03-14?reflink=MW_news_stmp Behind the Hydrogen Explosion at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/12-3 What will spark the next Fukushima? An untrustworthy nuclear industry, incompetently regulated, is leading the world into greater and greater danger http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/14/fukushima-nuclear-industry