http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Mon, 20 May 2013 22:56:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/of-earthquakes-and-nuclear-reactors/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/of-earthquakes-and-nuclear-reactors/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:30:33 +0000 Benjamin Preston http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=13500 As Japan’s nuclear meltdown catastrophe continues in the wake of the March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese power company executives and officials face an increasingly challenging situation. Tuesday morning, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) — the company operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant — dumped more than 11,000 gallons of radioactive seawater into [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/06/of-earthquakes-and-nuclear-reactors/feed/ 1