CNN reports "There is a possibility, we see the possibility of a meltdown," said Toshihiro Bannai, director of the agency's international affairs office, in a telephone interview from the agency's headquarters in Tokyo. "At this point, we have still not confirmed that there is an actual meltdown, but there is a possibility."
I was a Junior at North Forsyth High School in Winston-Salem, NC when the Three Mile Island accident happened in Middleton, Pennsylvania.
There have been some significant upgrades that have occurred learning from the accident, but tsunami's were probably not in the equation or new plant designs.
The Prime Minister of Japan - quoted in the NY Times - has called this "disaster the country's worse since WWII," an obvious inference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Please keep the residents of Sendai in your thoughts, prayers, meditations and resources.
I am reminded of John Donne in this instance because our survival as a human species will be in willing to assist others in times of crisis, regardless of nationality, political philosophy or time zone.
Now in this time of need is the time to get "involved with mankind."
Link to help: American Red Cross Responding to Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami
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