Summing up Fukushima ( with the exception that the spent fuel pool was omitted and its associated problems being one good quake away from being a complete clusterfuck ) MSNBC on Reactor No. 2: It is beyond human capability, “problem gets worse and worse and worse” — The really bad news is this is the good news, as they can’t even determine what is going on at Reactors No. 1 and 3

Title: Video: How do you solve a nuclear disaster?
Source: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show
Date: April 6, 2012

Transcript Summary At 5:30 in

• You want the fuel to be covered with water to keep it cool and shield radiation
• Expected 33 feet, only 2 feet of water in reactor
• That’s very, very bad
• A symptom that something is very wrong
• It is also a cause of yet more going wrong there… There’s nothing shielding the radiation that’s coming out of that fuel
• The current plan is to invent something new that doesnt exist yet
• The thing that does not exist that can allow us to even try to fix this problem
• The thing that we could imagine might be useful to fix this problem, we’re going to have to invent
• While the problem gets worse and worse and worse
• It is beyond human capability
• The really bad news is this is the good news… can’t even get near
• They can’t even go near No. 1 and 3 to inspect
• Nuclear problems are problems we don’t know how to fix

h/t PoorDaddy