Japan is now the global example of the worst case scenario in which everything that can go wrong has gone wrong.
When a nuclear plant servicing an equivalent area of a U.S. state blows up and moves toward meltdown, even Russia’s Chernobyl begins to shrink by comparison.
For the nuclear energy sector, it’s a meltdown of another kind as few people will want to see another one built any time soon.
One astonishing side note to the disaster is the way Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada forced the shut-down of a multi-billion dollar Yucca Mountain repository for U.S. nuclear waste.
