 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | In mid-march Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant in Japan and asked: "Can it happen here?' They already know the answer. As the late great environmentalist, David Brower, used to put it, "Nuclear plants are incredibly complex technological devices for locating earthquake faults.' Along much of America's West Coast runs the Ring of Fire, which stretches all around the Pacific plate from Australia, north past Japan, to Russia, Alaska, and down the coast to Chile. Some 90 per cent of the world's earthquakes happen around the Ring. |
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