If the last two months have shown us anything about the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in Japan, it's that Tokyo Electric and the national government there don't know what they're doing, are hiding facts, or most likely both. The news that they are releasing about the conditions of the four trashed reactors gets worse by the day, and they have no credible plan to remediate the disaster other than pouring swimming pools full of water onto the reactors, which then escapes as highly radioactive pollution into the sea and groundwater. Meanwhile, serious earthquakes near Fukushima continue unabated, and the blown-out building shells of two of the plants, which hold up the spent nuclear fuel pools, look to be teetering on collapse.

And so what does the U.S. government do? Officially stop paying attention, thus providing further cover for the Japanese. If there was any doubt that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was still a house of industry call girls, it's been removed.