Fukushima Reactor #2 pressure vessel breached, rising to "unimaginable" levels of radiation.

[Esse Quam Videri]

1. So many things to talk about if you've been

Paying attention since this disaster happened. I think one the most telling is the difference between how the Russians responded to Chernobyl versus how the Japanese responded (or didn't) to Fukushima . The Russians immediately set to work to encase their reactor in a concrete sarcophagus and have just recently completed a massive second outer sarcophagus. The Japanese? Just a temporary structure that I think is more to keep rain water out than to keep the radiation contained.

But let's not kid ourselves. With the actual fuel from one, two or even three reactors now residing somewhere in the ground below the reactors the real problem is the mixing of ground/sea water. While the Japanese have tried constructing an ice wall, its efficacy remains to be seen.