>Does the EU energy chief have some motive to exaggerate about this? Or, rather, have the Japanese been seriously downplaying the current status??? As far as

>Does the EU energy chief have some motive to exaggerate about this? Or, rather, have the Japanese been seriously downplaying the current status??? As far as I can tell, no news is bad news with respect to situations like this -- we have not heard that they were able to rebuild the containment, lower the temp and reverse the effects of corrosive last-resort sea-water-based cooling of the (potentially) exposed fuel rods. So, barring superman flying around Earth to make the reactor heal itself -- I am leaning toward the EU position slightly more than the move-along, nothing to see attitude. What I DONT know and desperately wish to know is what, if any, all other nations are doing to help. Help in the lines of MATERIAL SUPPORT rather than "our thoughts are with the Japanese people in this time of great need" empty bullshit. SO! WTF have we (the US) done so far to help? Are there many many teams of experts on the ground in Japan right now - but they dont want to tell us the level of effort deployed as it would reveal the severity of the problem, or more likely, the lack-of-expertise in such matter the world collectively shares??