There was no bad news Saturday regarding Fukushima. The electric cable is getting connected to several of the reactor buildings Saturday and Sunday. Diesel generators (or pumps, I forget which) are coming in. Radiation levels around the plant are continuing to slowly drop. The fire trucks and helicopters continue to drop water into the cooling ponds seemingly hitting their targets. The IAEA and American military are also deeply involved and would be telling us if something were being hidden. (Sorry for no citations of the above info. I was out all day today getting supplies and am too tired to properly back up the assertions.)
None of this means that there is nothing worse building up that no one can see, so the situation does remain critical, but there is increasingly room for reasonable optimism and hope.
We should begin to know Sunday and Monday if the electricity being connected to the reactor buildings is going to effectively power the pumps. If that happens and water can begin to be circulated to all pools and reactor cores, then we can more confidently say that we did indeed turn a corner Thursday and Friday.
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