NHK has interviewed a worker from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The worker agreed to the interview if his identity was hidden. He says Tokyo Electric Power Company is just at the beginning of their efforts to control the critical plant.

He says what has been done at the plant so far is just prep work: “We have not yet begun to climb the mountain.”  Meaning efforts to secure Fukushima Daiichi haven’t even started.

He says radiation levels at the plant are too high to safely work.  Radioactive water has been leaking ever since the first hydrogen gas explosions at least three weeks ago. Radioactive debris, including sections of pipes that carry highly radioactive water, are spread all over the plant’s compound.