Quote of the Day

"We can't rule out the possibility that there will be some areas where it will be hard for residents to return to their homes for a long time. We are very sorry."—Yukio Edano, Chief Spokesperson for the Japanese Government, admitting at long last "that thousands of people with homes near the [Fukushima] nuclear plant may not be able to return for a generation or more," because the damage is much worse than initially thought/predicted/said, and possibly even worse than the Chernobyl meltdown.