Following the 8.9 quake & tsumani in Japan, an explosion at a nuclear power plant at Fukushima Daiichi on Japan’s devastated coast destroyed a building Saturday and made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, the central threat for the nation. With a possibility of meltdowns at Fukushima’s No. 1 and No. 3 reactors, the Japanese government called for an evacuation of more than 200,000 residents close to the plant. Seawater has been pumped into the reactors to cool the plants. Experts describe this as an “act of desperation” to cool them down and not expected to restart the nuclear reactors.

Nuclear Meltdown feared in Japan

Second explosion at nuclear power plant