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I think I read that the US is sending a barge with over 1 M gallons of fresh water. Time is not on our side. If/when the site is abandoned due to higher radiation levels, it's sayonara to a large part of Japan.

I am curious to see if there wasn't damage to the neutron-absorbing baffles of the storage pools.

Saw some recent video of the damage to the roof area (forget which reactor) this morning. Doesn't look good for the storage pool.

Well, I guess its problematic at this point. I'll just say I'm not as pessimistic. It don't think this will reach INES Level 7 (like Chornobil) even in the worst case. They've still got containment (unlike Chornobil) and I don't think we'll see catastrophic failure of that.

That's not to say it won't be a long road to recovery. Remember to keep things in perspective. I just saw on Drudge that they have 27,000 reported dead or missing in the larger disaster. That is the real tragedy. The reactors have caused no fatalities and a handful of injuries. That said, they'll have to keep working as hard as they can on the Fukushima situation, but on balance they have a lot of other things on their plate as well.