Tokyo Electric Power Co., via Associated Press White smoke billowed from the No. 3 unit of the nuclear plant in Okumamachi. As some of you may be aware, I’m barely online this week, working in Belize with a dozen Pace University communications students and their professor. While hundreds of thousands of college students are kicking back this week, this team has been sweating and hustling and videotaping their way through their spring break. They are making a documentary about an American woman’s 25-year adventure in trying to grow shrimp while reducing environmental impacts. You can follow their efforts on their Sustainable Shrimp blog or keep track via Twitter.com/got_shrimp.
It’s exciting to watch a new generation of visual communicators learning by doing. But our isolation means it’s very tough for me to follow the fast-moving developments at Japan’s flood-damaged reactors. Here’s a Q&A with New York Times reporters covering developments and a link to The Lede blog, which is posting frequent text and video updates.
I leave this space open to your civil, constructive input on the future of nuclear power given the issues that made these Japanese plants glaringly vulnerable to the crisis that has unfolded in the aftermath of the great earthquake and resulting tsunami.