FollowSince the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out the Fukushima Dai-lchi nuclear plant’s cooling systems, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has been struggling to stop radiation leaks and stabilize crippling reactors. Imagining solar panels leaking from Fukushima and slowly spreading across the Pacific paints a much brighter picture than traveling radiation. But because a panels-to-radiation comparison could get a bit tricky, we explore what it might have looked like if the resources now being dedicated to nuclear disaster recovery might have instead been invested in solar panels.
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