No News Is Good News

Recap of this week's headlines:

Japanese Reactors On Verge Of Meltdown!
Widespread Radiation Fears as Engineers Battle to Control Reactors!
Engineers Locked in Life Or Death Struggle to Control Nuclear Plant!
Foreigners Evacuate as Nuclear Plant Situation Continues to Escalate
Struggle at Nuclear Power Plant Exhausts All Exciting Metaphors
Japanese Nuclear Reactors Stubbornly Refuse to Explode
Oh Screw This, We're Going to Libya

I think you can add bonus points for any mention of a new "last-ditch effort" (there have been at least four), as well as any official statement to the effect of "the situation is grave, but under control". You could make a drinking game out of that, but you might not survive.

Not to say that the situation isn't grave, but it's been grave for several days, and has stubbornly refused to escalate to disastrous. Safety measures have so far been sufficient to contain the incident, and the fuel pools haven't cooked off. So Fukushima slips off the headlines not with a bang, but with a whimper. Let's hope it stays that way.