Today's Update

Fukushima has largely fallen off the news, but when it re-emerges it tends to be in some sort of panic-laden title that doesn't actually say anything. Nevertheless the crisis continues. At first we were worried about the reactors exploding, then about the Spent Fuel Pool burning to the ground. Now we're down to high-radiation water leaking out into the ocean. We've pretty much run the gamut from super-critical down to merely urgent.

Nevertheless, radiation is still spreading out there, so if you're concerned about friends and family in Japan, here's the word:

( Radiation )

In short, the crisis level has decreased significantly, but the long-term worries about radiation leakage remain. Additionally there's still a chance for things to go catastrophically wrong, but with each passing day it might actually be less.