Listening Post - What is all the buzz about Japan?

First came the earthquake, then the "ten metre high" tidal wave, then the threat of a nuclear meltdown. The string of disasters in Japan has grabbed headlines across the globe but when you are dealing with a story of this magnitude, it is always difficult to accurately convey the reality in a single headline, by-line or bulletin. The dominant narrative in this case has been the threat of Japan's damaged nuclear reactors leaking radiation. No matter how hard the experts try to pull the Chernobyl/Three Mile Island/nuclear buzzwords out of the headlines, they keep finding their way back in. On this week's Listening Post: The fault line that runs through the Land of the Rising Sun - and the chasm that lies between fact and what some call fiction in the reporting of the earthquake story.