Comment 61172

By Zot (anonymous) | Posted March 18, 2011 at 14:47:55

Some officials in Japan are coming unstuck today, others are making heroic pronouncements.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri broke down in tears as he left his daily press conference in Fukushima today:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/18/article-1367684-0B3BF1E700000578-880_472x491.jpg
after admitting that radiation escaping the plant is at potentially lethal levels, that the authorities should have been more open in disclosing the magnitude of the accident, and that entombing the complex in sand and concrete, as was done at Chernobyl, may be the only way to prevent massive releases of radiation.
Given the current high radiation levels at the plant, the condition of the reactor buildings, and the sheer size of the complex, I have not seen any practical suggestion as to how such a thing could be done in time, even if the decision was made to attempt it, but maybe I'm missing something?

In a televised speech today conference prime minister Naoto Kan insisted that his country would overcome the catastrophe:

'We will rebuild Japan from scratch. In our history, this small island nation has made miraculous economic growth thanks to the efforts of all Japanese citizens. That is how Japan was built.'

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