Nuke barrels fall, go BOOM – SFBG Politics Blog

Nuke barrels fall, go BOOM

by Amanda Witherell

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Yikes, doesn’t this picture give you the willies? It’s from the Japanese nuclear power plant, located on a fault line like another nuke plant we know. (Ahem, Diablo Canyon.) Last month it succumbed to the Murphy’s Law of its seismology. This week a UK Times reporter took a tour of the facility and reports that officials are actually considering restarting the reactors even though the superstructure is still impassable and waste leaked out after the quake. Awesome.