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One critic says Energy Secretary Steven Chu has been strangely absent from the public discourse on nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese nuclear calamity.
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People walk along a road between the rubble of destroyed buildings in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on Monday. (Yomiuri Shimbun via Associated Press)
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Evacuees gather around candlelight at a blacked-out shelter in Yamamoto, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on Monday, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)
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A man checks out a stock price board in Tokyo on Monday as the stock market plunged on its first business day after an earthquake and tsunami laid waste to cities along Japan's northeast coast. (Associated Press)
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One critic says Energy Secretary Steven Chu has been strangely absent from the public discourse on nuclear power in the wake of the Japanese nuclear calamity.
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Rescue workers carry an elderly man found alive by tsunami survivors after he was buried under rubble along a slope of a hill in Minamisanriku in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hiroaki Ohno)
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A ferry is stranded atop a building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, in northern Japan on Sunday, March 13, 2011, two days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun)
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In this image made from Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, flames from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 rise in Okumamachi, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked the stricken nuclear plant Monday, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan)
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In this image made frp, Japan's NTV/NNN Japan television footage, smoke ascends from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant's Unit 3 in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture, in northern Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked Japan's stricken nuclear plant, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and wounding 11 workers. (AP Photo/NTV/NNN Japan)
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Police lead rescue teams in the search for survivors among the damaged buildings and tsunami debris in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo, as helicopters and convoys of army trucks headed toward areas hit hardest by Japan's strongest earthquake. (Koichi Kamoshida/Bloomberg)
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A fuel tanker sits submerged in water next to tsunami-damaged buildings in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo, as helicopters and convoys of army trucks headed toward areas hardest hit by Japan's strongest earthquake. (Koichi Kamoshida/Bloomberg)
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Police lead rescue teams in the search for survivors among the damaged buildings and tsunami debris in Rikuzentakada, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked an atomic plant north of Tokyo, as helicopters and convoys of army trucks headed toward areas worst hit by Japan's strongest earthquake. (Koichi Kamoshida/Bloomberg)
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A man bicycles by a beached ship at Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japan's east coast. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
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Soldiers of the Japan Self-Defense Force and firefighters search for the victims in the rubble on Monday, March 14, 2011, in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, three days after northeastern coastal towns were devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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Debris covers part of a fishing port on Izushima island in Onagawacho, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Atsushi Taketazu)
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The city center sits devastated by a strong earthquake and tsunami in Rikuzentakata, in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, on Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
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In this photo taken Sunday, March 13, 2011, a member of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force rescues a victim in Ishinomaki, in northern Japan, two days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Makoto Kondo)
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The body of a man from the village of Saito in northeastern Japan lies among the rubble on Monday, March 14, 2011. Rescue workers used chain saws and hand picks to dig out bodies in Japan's devastated coastal towns, as Asia's richest nation faced a mounting humanitarian, nuclear and economic crisis in the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami that likely killed thousands. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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Japan Self-Defense Force members carry the body of a victim in Kamaishi, in northern Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011, three days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the country's east coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Daisuke Uragami)
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In this March 13, 2011, photo, a man walks by the Japanese word meaning "food" drawn over fading sign of SOS marked on the ground in Rikuzentakata in Japan's Iwate Prefecture on Monday, three days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit the country's northeast coast. (AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbun, Motoki Nakashima)
