And so the madness continues...............

U.S. May Build Five New Nuclear Reactors by 2020, New Energy Finance Says

By Christopher Martin - Apr 4, 2011 2:01 PM CT

The U.S. will build five new nuclear reactors by 2020 and ignore calls to scale back plans in the wake of Japan’s nuclear accident, said Chris Gadomski, an analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

“We’ll see a reassessment and reevaluation and then stay the course,” Gadomski said today at a conference in New York today. Plans to build the five reactors are already underway, he said, and “We don’t see that changing.”

No new nuclear plants have been built in the U.S. since the 1979 near-meltdown at Three Mile Island. Interest in atomic energy has gained as a way to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming, and the Obama administration has offered loan guarantees to developers of reactors, which account for a fifth of total U.S. electricity.

Read Full Article Here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis

"The U.N. nuclear agency said a state of emergency was also declared Sunday at another complex, the Onagawa power plant, after higher-than-permitted levels of radiation were measured there. It said Japan informed it that all three of those reactors there were under control.

"Four nuclear complexes in northeastern Japan have reported some damage from the quake or the tsunami."

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/20/japanese-official-pressure-levels-rising-reactor-damaged-nuclear-plant/

"Bringing the two units under control marks a minor advance in the efforts to stop the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex from leaking radiation. The two units are the least problematic of the six reactor units at the plant, which began overheating after the earthquake-triggered tsunami disrupted the plant's cooling systems.

The news comes amid an unexpected rise in pressure inside reactor No. 3, setting back efforts to bring Japan's overheating, leaking nuclear complex under control Sunday as concerns grew that as-yet minor contamination of food and water is spreading.

The pressure increase meant plant operators may need to deliberately release radioactive steam, prolonging a nuclear crisis ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5la7EWhkUA

This is the man who predicted the European severe winter when everyone else wasn't.  He talks about solar/lunar interactions as well.