The Economist has an excellent article on the background of nuclear malfunctions similar to what is happening in Japan and an explanation of the current situation.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/03/post-earthquake_nuclear_crisis
The comments, some of which are actually quite informed, fall into two categories. There is the "Luddite anti-everything" crowd and the "Useful Idiots in the pay of big business" crowd.
BBC's latest information is here.
It is a clearly written article. IEEE Spectrum has a series of articles on the situation as well:
ReplyDeletehttp://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear