We Don't Know What's Going Wrong, But Don't Worry!

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120208_26.html

...So. Let's review:

> They have NO IDEA what the cause is;

> Their only response is to take what amounts to a SIX-MONTH STEP BACKWARD in terms of the tactics employed to address the problem, cross their fingers and hope no more leaks occur; and

> There's no guarantee it won't happen at OTHER reactors, since they can't figure out what's actually happening in Number Two.

...But, on the bright side, at least now we can be reasonably confident that there's still SOME core material inside Reactor 2, meaning it hasn't ALL been flushed out into the Pacific Ocean (yet, anyway).

...And they have the nerve to call Fukushima Dai-ichi "stable", in "cold shutdown", and to announce grand plans for long-term decommissioning. Truth be told, it's ALL still guesswork and theory, we're ALL still in the dark, and at the mercy of this radiological monster that continues to writhe and eat away at the depths of what the Japanese press continue to insist on euphemistically terming, "the TROUBLED nuclear plant".

Rick Cromack.