Post Fukushima, Japan Unpowered

Tsunami leapfrogs wall,
disaster nation falls out,
Japan Fukushima’d !

Nature, it seems, is against nuclear power. First the massive earthquake and the tsunami in Japan. And now invasions of jellyfish :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-13971005
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/06/261513/attack-of-the-jellyfish-shut-down-power-station-climate-change/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009771/Jellyfish-force-shutdown-nuclear-power-station-swimming-filters.html?ITO=1490
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/175273/20110706/nuclear-reactor-orot-rabin-nuclear-power-plant-israel-hadera-scotland-torness-power-reactors-edf-jap.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2011782/Jellyfish-numbers-surge-climate-change.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

But everything will get back to nuclear normal pretty soon. Won’t it ? Possibly not in Japan, where a large percentage of the country’s nuclear power plants went into “cold shutdown” on 11th March 2011 and haven’t been back up again since :-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/06/japan-power-shortages-nuclear-shutdowns
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/world/asia/07japan.html

In the space of a few hours, Japan went from a highly developed, industrialised country into a nation of turmoil, with no idea of when the air conditiioning can be turned back on.

Atomic electricity – so dependable and reliable; so guaranteed and sure…