Japanese Nuclear Disaster: Timeline For Shutting Down Reactor -- To Start Shutting Down in Early 2012

Updates

May 7, 2012: Japan is nuclear-energy free. The last of 54 nuclear reactors was shut down. Japan is the first major economy in the modern world to be nuclear free. 

Original Post

Link here.

The operators will be able to start shutting down the reactors in early 2012.

A two-phase plan that involves first plugging leaks and cooling the reactors, then shutting them down by the beginning of 2012 is the most concrete [no pun intended?] timetable offered yet for resolving Japan's worse nuclear crisis.

Our own Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helps draw up the plan.

I honestly did not know she also had training as a nuclear physicist.

Why do visions of "The Simpsons" suddenly flash across my mind?

I keep updates on the Japanese nuclear disaster here.