Even constant monitoring of official and mainstream media reports has left most reporters confused and frustrated with missing, contradictory, or incomplete information on the evolving nuclear capacity. The mainstream media is frustrating, as they feel the need to keep going back to explain third grade science points to their audience. In all of this, the best, clearest, most well illustrated explanations for general audiences have been coming from Rachel Maddow, whose intelligence is like a bucket of cold water on a hot, hot day.
If you have an intelligent friend that wants the best quick primer on what’s going on, this would be a good place to send them first.
one more below, on the emerging spent fuel situation:
UPDATE:
The respected science journal Nature has a primer on the accident that is written for the layman, and highly credible, here:
After tangible disasters, we learned more than we ever wanted to know about deep water drilling and nuclear reactors. Rachel should explain global warming before climate change is “an event that no one ever considered outside of science fiction movies”.
Her coverage uses experts and scientists… while other reporters use anybody they can find with an opinion.
I was expecially offended by O’Donnell’s reporting about the plants on the CA coast, claiming millions could be at risk. That’s fear mongering, and I thought we progressives were above that.