Prime Minister Naoto Kan, are you listening!...

I was watching Michio Kaku, theoretical physicists, on cable news this morning when he told the newscaster that the only real solution to the exposed Fukushima nuclear reactor was to do a Chernobyl-type entombment of the structure.  The same thought occurred to me yesterday.  Why not?  Kaku says it's probably because the Tokyo Electric Power Co. wants to save face by not admitting defeat, that no matter how bad it looks, they still have the upper hand.  This is like trying to walk on severely frost bitten feet to prove that there's nothing wrong with them.

In any case, the reactors are toast.  They are no longer of any value and will be buried anyway when all is said and done.  So why delay it?  Kaku said the last-ditch attempts to cool the reactor by dropping water from helicopters was like trying to put out a forest fire with a squirt gun.

If Prime Minister Naoto Kan is the last word in this situation, then he needs to get on a bullhorn right away and put it right in Tokyo Electric's face and shout the command to bury the reactor before it does further damage.

It's also been suggested by experts that a large generator could have been flown in rather than trying to repair the damaged power cables.

This is no time for egos to get in the way of a  prompt resolution.  Stupidity is sometimes excusable, but not in this case.