#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Cloth Caps Over Reactors Coming, and All That's Left for Japan is a Luck

The only way I can think of right now that would make a difference in tackling the Fukushima I nuke plant disaster is for a foreign country or two to declare war on the government of Japan for endangering its own citizens and endangering the rest of the world by their totally incompetent handling of the crisis, and go occupy the country, arrest all the officials and pols and bureaucrats and throw them in jail, and the occupation force get to work.

But alas, the Japanese government, and the Japanese people to some extent, has squandered the goodwill and willingness to help from the rest of the world. Now, no one cares. The rest of the world look on with bemuse, as the next amusing episode unfolds, of what the Japanese government can screw up.

The next amusing episode is going to be the cloth caps that they declared on Sunday that they would be building very shortly to put over the reactors.

According to Kyodo News Japanese (4/4/2011), the Japanese government overrode the objection from even the researchers who had been cheerleading the government every step of the way. Their objection was that the radioactive materials coming from the Reactor buildings were actually far less than the radioactive materials that had fallen on the debris around it, and by capping the reactors they would run the risk of concentration of the radioactive materials inside the reactors, and of further hydrogen explosions.

But this stupidest administration since the admin during the World War II led by a grandstanding prime minister and politicians who think they know things nuclear decided to go ahead on the plan which was apparently submitted by a big general contractor who has little expertise in nuclear reactors, saying "This is a political decision", according to the same Kyodo News article.

By the way, the Kyodo News article was not carried by the major Japanese newspapers, nor did the major Japanese newspapers reported it themselves. I didn't find the English article on the subject by Kyodo. Only local papers like Kahoku Shinpo and Hokkaido Shinbun carried the Kyodo News article. South Korea's Arirang reported it, from its own reporter.

Good luck Japan. You need it, as no one is helping you, and/or you've refused help, and you clearly cannot help yourself. All you have left is a luck.

(Oh, and Mr. Rogers over at Lewrockwell.com, good luck to you too. You should have listened to the US Embassy instead of the Japanese government, but it's just me thinking that way.)

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