“Nothing was taking place at Fukushima Daiichi in terms of the government solving the problem” until about a week later when Tokyo and Washington launched a joint task force, he said.
You mean when it became crystal clear that the worse case scenario had indeed occurred. Never before in world history have 3 adjacent nuclear reactors simultaneously melted down and escaped their RPV's. Nothing but finger pointing cover stories here. And what exactly have they solved since the end of the first week ? Seems like they only have made the situation worse.
This is the worse cluster puck in history.
What should have had to be done was like D-day style operation. Instead TEPCO went about it as if it were a routine repair job. Patch up some damaged parts and they can have all reactors in good order. LOL.