(MSNBC.com) Rachel Maddow gives an easy-to-understand breakdown of what is happening -- and causing problems -- at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Deutsche Welle provides this Anatomy of a Nuclear Meltdown. According to Mark Hibbs, senior associate for the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Chernobyl-like meltdown is "not possible" at the Fukushima plant.

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(Associated Press: 0712 PST, March 14, 2011) There's been more trouble at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. With cooling systems down, fuel rods have been exposed at the facility's Unit 2 reactor, and there was an explosion at Unit 3

Japan's Nuclear Crisis Far from Over

(Al Jazeera English: 0017 PST, March 14, 2011) The Fukushima nuclear power plant witnessed another explosion on Monday mounting fear of a major nuclear radiation.

Officials had warned about the explosion but the Japanese government tried to allay fears of a major nuke leak. This despite the fact that 22 people have already tested positive for radiation and the number is only likely to grow. Al Jazeera's Florence Looi reports.

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