Bloomberg | Share The View March 12, 2014: The Missing Airliner:

SHARE THE VIEW A quick look at Bloomberg News's opinion section March 12, 2014 For more, visit www.bloombergview.com» NUCLEAR DISASTER: "Three years after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami nearly triggered a nuclear cataclysm in central Japan, conditions at the shattered Dai-Ichi power plant in Fukushima don't inspire confidence," James Gibney writes. "Yet here's where tragedy turns to farce: Last month, on the same day that Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced that a damaged power cable at the Dai-Ichi plant had shut down a vital cooling system, the Japanese government released its new Basic Energy Plan, which called nuclear power 'an important base load energy source.'" Read more MALAYSIAN AIRLINER: The Editors: "Days after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished somewhere between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, its fate remains unknown , add ing a cruel uncertainty to the grief of the families and friends