Stories in the issue include:
Opener: The day the lights went out in Japan
Japan’s rolling blackouts: Is the smart power grid working?
How the next-generation power grid needs to be designed
How Japan’s nuclear power plants failed; and its consequences
Impact of “loss of electric power” on the electronics industry in Japan and on the global market
Impact of “loss of electric power” on Japan’s economy at large

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As the situation at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant slowly winds down, the salient facts remain the same as they have been throughout: nobody has suffered or will suffer any radiological health consequences. Economic damage and inconvenience resulting from the quake’s effects on nuclear power have been significant, but tiny in comparison to all other human activities – the nuclear power plants in the stricken region have suffered less damage and caused less trouble to local residents than anything else that was there.