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It isn’t even on the less-than-top stories on the News homepage.

As of 9:50 a.m. EST, 10:50 p.m. in Tokyo….

Google News erases Japan meltdown story

and all references to Fukushima or TOPEC.

UPDATE

At 2:55 p.m. EST there is no mention of the meltdown, Japan nuke crisis etc. on Google News.

And ANOTHER nuke plant (with similar name) is going on the Fritz —

Tokyo (CNN) — Smoke was spotted at another nuclear plant in northeastern Japan on Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.The company said smoke was detected in the turbine building of reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant around 6 p.m. (5 a.m. ET).Smoke could no longer be seen by around 7 p.m. (6 a.m. ET), a company spokesman told reporters.

The Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where workers have been scrambling to stave off a meltdown since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems there. . .  (more)

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.daini/?hpt=T2

UPDATE April 6

From WC Varones’ blog:

If a meltdown occurs but nobody reports on it, did it really happen? Today Zerohedge posted this, quoting Reuters, regarding confirmation that one of the Fukushima reactors had melted down . . .

http://www.wcvarones.com/2011/04/nuclear-meltdown.html