Good Japanese Nuclear Crisis Source

For the past week, geology Ph.D. candidate Evelyn Mervine* has been interviewing her father USN Commander (Ret.) Mark Mervine, a nuclear engineer, about the rapidly developing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plants in Japan.

I've been frustrated by the media coverage and have found Ms. Mervine's interviews with her father to be some of the best explanatory sources of information about what's going on at the Fukushima complex.

Below is the latest interview she and her father did on the afternoon of Friday 18 March 2011. If it sounds interesting, a week's worth of previous interviews and segments answering listener questions can be found at Ms. Mervine's Geology blog Georneys.

Interview 8 | 3/18: Nuclear Engineer on Japan Nuclear Disaster from Evelyn Mervine on Vimeo.

If you have comments or questions, I'm sure they'd appreciate hearing them.

* She's also a friend of Dr. Phil Plait the skeptic, prominent science and astronomy blogger, and Discovery Channel show host--which is not bad company to keep.