Amazingly, it looks as though some of those damaged Japanese nukes will have to be scrapped. Golly, who'd have thunk? It's been simply bizarre to read "news reports" describing heroic efforts to "save" the reactors. Most sane folks could recognize that at least half of them were dead, and that efforts were focused not on "saving", but limiting damage. TEP and most government bureaucrats seem to believe that all they have to do is send in a P.R. type to "reassure" folks, and everything will be fine.
There's one of their problems, right there: unlike the highly-paid members of the P.R. crew, most of the general public are smart enough to understand what's going down over there. P.R. people aren't paid to be smart; they're paid to be affable.
Just how do you "scrap" half a dozen nuke plants? Especially given that no amelioration efforts thus far have worked?
