The Big Picture, Thom Hartmann with Paul Gunter

The Big Picture, Thom Hartmann with Linda Gunter

Dale Bridenbaugh on ABC News

"Thousands of people may lose their lives," observes Dale Bridenbaugh on ABC News. Bridenbaugh and two colleagues quit GE over safety issues related to the Mark 1 reactor, saying it was not large or strong enough to contain radiation in the event of a meltdown.

3-minute commentary on Japan by Karl Grossman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUx7gto8uj8

A moment of light relief from The Onion

From The Onion: "Responding to the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan, officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sought Thursday to reassure nervous Americans that U.S. reactors were 100 percent safe and posed absolutely no threat to the public health as long as no unforeseeable system failure or sudden accident were to occur." And read the rest.