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Japan: Open door: Explaining the Fukushima crisis
Posted by Guardian: Chris Elliott on April 4th, 2011
Guardian: The still-unfolding tragedy of Japan may be told simply through the statistics of death and destruction. However, the scientific complexity underlying the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is much harder to report.
There are many kinds of radiation and more than one view as to the short- and long-term effects of exposure. Trying to explain in a clear, accurate fashion what is happening to the plant's damaged reactors and the workers struggling to bring the plant under control...