Will GE Get Whacked for the Catastrophic Failure of its Nuke Plants in Fukushima? http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/509

GE, the company that boasts that it “brings good things to life,” was the designer of the nuclear plants that are blowing up like hot popcorn kernels at the Fukushima Dai-ichi generating plant north of Tokyo that was hit by the double-whammy of an 9.1 earthquake and a huge tsunami.

General Electric-designed reactors in Fukushima have 23 sisters in U.S. http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/13/6256121-general-electric-designed-reactors-in-fukushima-have-23-sisters-in-us

The General Electric-designed nuclear reactors involved in the Japanese emergency are very similar to 23 reactors in use in the United States, according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission records.The NRC database of nuclear power plants shows that 23 of the 104 nuclear plants in the U.S. are GE boiling-water reactors with GE's Mark I systems for containing radioactivity, the same containment system used by the reactors in trouble at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. The U.S. reactors are in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

[In case you were wondering why NBC and MSNBC are screaming about the "Bad Japanese", remember that those reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant are all made by General Electric ... which owns NBC and co-owns MSNBC! 23 General Electric reactors of the same design are in operation inside the United States.

Breaking news: Fourth Japan nuke reactor now on fire http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8474747-breaking-news-fourth-japan-nuke-reactor-now-on-fire

Breaking news - A fire has broken out at a fourth nuclear reactor in Japan at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant, and additional radiation is being released, according to MSNBC news sources. It is unclear what caused the fire, but scientists believe that escaping hydrogen ignited the fire.Efforts to keep the reactor temperature under control by flooding with sea water have not been completely successful, and a portion of the rods inside the reactor core are now exposed and melting.