For several days the Japanese government, and Tokyo Electric Power Company officials, have been talking about using specially coated sheeting to wrap the Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant in.  Now they’ve announced when that will happen: September!

Hello, I think that’s too late guys!  How much radiation will have spewed in that amount of time? And it doesn’t even address water leakage.

The Japanese government has already commissioned a contractor to do the job. According to Kyodo News, that contractor says they hope to start work by June (June!). The reason, same as always, radiation levels are too high to do any truly productive work.

This is a vicious circle: They have to do work to get radiation levels down, but the radiation levels are so high that the amount of time a worker can be at the job is limited to less than 15 minutes, with full protective gear. This has been stated by many TEPCo employees interviewed by Japanese media. Even Japanese nuke analysts have said as much.  In other words this has become a “sit & spin” operation!

Let me ask again: Why don’t they dump concrete on it!?