Impossible to predict currently. We should hope for the best and prepare for the worse.
This incident comes as the level of water used to cool a nuclear reactor damaged in Friday’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami dropped to an alarming level today, according to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, heightening fears of a larger nuclear disaster.
As of 11:20 a.m. local time, a part of the “fuel assembly” of fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s No. 1 reactor was exposed above water, with a maximum exposure of about 90 centimeters.