{"id":489,"date":"2011-03-12T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=489"},"modified":"2011-03-12T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T20:02:33","slug":"another-nuclear-disaster-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"How big of a nuclear disaster? Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan have raised new concerns about the risk of another nuclear reactor disaster. Despite reports by the New York Times that &#8220;officials said radiation leaks from the plant were receding and that a major meltdown was not imminent,&#8221; scientists from organizations such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and Beyond Nuclear are working to access the risk of a major disaster. They have reported &#8220;there are indications that there has been some fuel melting, and there are reports that some radioactive cesium has been detected.&#8221; Their<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nirs.org\/reactorwatch\/accidents\/Fukushimafactsheet.pdf\"> fact sheet<\/a> is being updated regularly.&#8221; <a title=\"Fukushima Explosion video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kjx-JlwYtyE\" target=\"_blank\">Here is video<\/a> of the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The fact sheet also suggested to me, anyway, that officials are struggling not to take action that will permanently disable the reactor, although the Concerned Scientist folks don&#8217;t think that is a bad idea at all.\u00a0 News reports suggest the situation is &#8220;<a title=\"Big Think Nuclear Disaster\" href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/31595\" target=\"_blank\">spiraling out of contro<\/a>l.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerned Scientists publish Fact Sheet on the prospect of major meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,5,116],"tags":[305,302,300,304],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming-and-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability","category-sustainable-lifestyles","tag-concerned-scientists","tag-externalities","tag-fukushima","tag-nuclear-power-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}