BBC News:

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2039: Ian Hore-Lacy of the World Nuclear Association told the BBC he believes the situation at the nuclear power plant - where sea water is being used to cool the reactor core - is under control: “The point is that the heat, decay heat from the fuel drops off very rapidly. So after an hour, an hour following the shut down, it’s down to about 2 or 3% I think. And after 24 hours it’s down to half a per cent. So the amount of heat you’ve got to cope with right now is a small fraction of what there was initially.”

If so, it does look like the worse is over, for now at least. I did read that they had to stop flooding the reactor core because of an aftershock not far from the plant, but I guess they’re back to the flooding now. It’s going to take between 5-10 hours to fill the reactor and it will have to be cooled by the sea water for about 10 days or so, which by that time, I guess, they will have the cooling pumps fixed and more coolant shipped there.