Earthquake and disaster links...

...following upon the Japan quake/Tsunami event.  This information seems solid.  This link is to All Things Nuclear, and is under the shell of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The next link I find valuable is from the blog Disaster Wise, "Comments about technological history, system fractures, and human resilience from James R. Chiles."  He seems to take this seriously and responsibly.

The best ongoing coverage seems to be at CNN.  On this incident, Fox News seems to be shouting a little too much, and they have at least one producer who is off the reservation.  Repeatedly yesterday they led into or ended segments on the nuclear-plant crisis by showing film footage from the burning refinery.  Not kosher at all.

I'll say that insomnia sometimes pays:  I woke up around 3:00 on Friday morning, unable to sleep.  My custom is to turn on the Coast-to-Coast program on local news radio.  Already people were calling George Noury with seismic reports about an incident off Japan, and the network news coverage began right after.

Power Plant Accident in Russia

Now viewing the headline of this story on Bloomberg today, "Russian Power Plant Accident Kills 8; 54 Missing," what was your first thought (after, of course, sorrow over the casualties)? That it was another nuclear generation plant that had gone bad? Nope. It was HYDRO. Just thought I'd point that out.