The nuclear wizards at Tokyo Electric have nearly completed building a hut around one of the four trashed reactor buildings at the triple meltdown site at Fukushima. The cover is supposed to keep airborne radioactive releases down, which is a bit like closing the barn door after the horse has left. It also obscures the condition of the reactor building from public view.

Of course, it does nothing to stop the flow of highly radioactive water from the basement of the building into the groundwater and Pacific Ocean. And they're still not saying, if they even know, exactly where the melted-down radioactive lava (a.k.a. "corium") is sitting.

Anyway, once they get the hut finished, they can move on to reactors 3 and 4, which also need a little work. Meanwhile, millions of folks for dozens of miles around continue their lives as human guinea pigs.

UPDATE, 10:27 a.m.: Speaking of guinea pigs, this is just profoundly sad. Rather than get children away from radiation, the Japanese just leave them there and use them for statistical purposes. Absolutely immoral, but that's the nuclear way.