Nuclear

So is it a meltdown or a meltdown?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/world/asia/13nuclear.html?_r=2&hp
or
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110312-red-alert-nuclear-meltdown-quake-damaged-japanese-plant?utm_source=redalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110312(4)&utm_content=readmore&elq=51b68c0a1fef4759b04d2fe55239361c

Perhaps Valerie Plame is right and we should just go to Global Zero. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/valerie-plame-wilson/nuclear-proliferation_b_832399.html

If nothing else, this will put a damper on Obama's interest in nuclear power. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-alvarez/on-the-brink-of-a-meltdow_b_834637.html

Why the world doesn't see the virtue of solar (free energy from the sun, anyone?), which would power the world's electricity needs without adding to carbon emissions and would get the U.S. off the oil teat, is beyond me.

Then again, we could just go along the same trajectory that we are presently on and see what more devastation can be wrought when bad boys from one continent sell to other bad boys on another continent: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/07/zimbabwe-iran-uranium_n_832376.html