Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a viable option for her country. Now Merkel has embarked on the world’s most ambitious plan to power an industrial economy on renewable sources of energy. And she is anything but a left-wing greenie. The party she leads, the Christian Democratic Union, is the political equivalent of the Republicans in the U.S. See http://e360.yale.edu/feature/germanys_unlikely_champion_of_a_radical_green_energy_path/2401/. Fukushima fuel melt confirmed http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Fukushima_fuel_melt_confirmed-1605115.html More-than-expected damage found at Japan reactor – a serious setback for efforts to stabilize the radiation-leaking complex http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-12-08-28-30#6afa1237-2cd4-4ffa-a318-916bb2b13b13 Fukushima: Village on way to becoming ghost town http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110513f1.html Truth a Letter from a High School Girl Living in Fukushima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXodi9X49pw&feature=share Fukushima Petition Please sign this new EMERGENCY petition to roll back reckless radiation limits and protect hundreds of thousands of Japanese children from a lifetime of cancer fear. http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.com/