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As for how to handle this particular meltdown? I think part of the situation is that these don't happen very often, at least, as far as what we are told they don't, so there really are no actual experts of this type...at least, the way I look at it an actual expert is somebody who got to be expert as a result handling a similar and real situation over and over and over.....till they got so good at it they had become an expert. There may be a paper experts - ones who trained over and over to meet whatever certs are required by nuclear regulatory agencies....but there are no actual experts. The theory of what regulatory agents require versus actual ground zero experience are two different animals. As far as what the public is generally aware historically, there has been no opportunity to develop such experts. As far as what the public is generally aware, there was Chernobyl, there was 3Mile Island, and there is this current situation in Japan. Chernobyl, we were told, was so bad that the answer to your question would be - you can't stop it because the reactor had been so badly damaged that it had disintegrated... you can't stop something that is already gone, as in, it is no more. We were told that 3MI was " operator error" that was corrected before the situation got really bad, as in Chernobyl bad.

As for whether or not the public is getting the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth out of the media, I would expect the status quo for this disaster. This is to say, we are told whatever we are told regardless of how this squares with the truth. After all, the media, as an apparatus, is involved with refining lies to the extent of making lies resemble the truth.

Put these two together and the question is - have any of the reactors in Japan been so badly damaged that there is nothing left to stop? - but no matter what the true answer is , we should not expect to hear this from the media. Tweet