A series of unpredictable strong earthquakes, including a super-size earthquake and subsequent tsunami, have thrown some of Japan’s nuclear energy plants into a crisis: pumping sea water, venting steam, keeping a lid on a disaster. The crisis exists mostly because Japan’s infrastructure suffered a full-body blow, and is essentially incapable of providing expected support to the plants. Indeed, Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan said this is Japan’s worst situation since World War Two’s devastation. Indeed, Japan’s nuclear plant technicians must be feeling hopelessness’ tap on the shoulder, urging them to just give up, to flee. Yet they stay; they are solving the nuclear plant problems no matter that it is the aftermath of entirely unpredictable, unwarnable natural disasters. If they succeed, they will be –and should be honored as – true heroes of a forward-looking nuclear age.
