Can we please keep political discussion out of this thread. There is a time and place for politics and neither is here.
Here is a pdf that outlines the current status at the fukushima facilities:
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_i...300273535P.pdf
Interesting to note that the spent fuel rod pools are of severe significance at the moment. The fukushima facility has around 3500 spent fuel rods in the reactor buildings (across all 6), with about 6000 more in a shared pool and 400 in dry storage. It produces around 700 spent fuel rods per year. That means that there is a significant amount of spent fuel rods in the pools in each reactor building.
I understand that reactors themselves are built with several layers of safety precautions in mind, but I do not fully understand how dangerous the spent fuel rods are. Reports were that the temperature in reactor building 4 was recorded at 84 degrees yesterday, and they suspected the storage pool was boiling. How dangerous is it to have uncooled spent fuel rods? How hot can they get? What is a worse case scenario?