I'm fine, rpm. Thanks for asking.
(Just a note here that I'm 90 miles south of the Fukushima plant)
It was estimated long ago that 55% of the fuel in #1 had melted, but they've just recently been able to replace instruments and gauges inside the building. It looks like more is melted than was thought. It's taken ingenuity and lots of hard work for them just to get inside Building 1, and lots more will be required over the next year. They're trying to do all of this work without killing anyone, and that means it will take some time.
I've watched interviews of the people in charge at the site (from inside the facility) and the staff are simply dealing with events as they learn more and more. There is no gloom among the workers; they're determined, methodical and very professional, from what I witnessed in the interview.
No doubt this is a monumental engineering challenge. They're still going to build a provisional cooling system that recirculates the water leaking from the pressure vessel but inside the containment, which is a creative solution. Outside the exclusion area around the plant, radioactivity levels have been back to normal background levels for at least a month now.
The first sentence of the Telegraph article is pretty funny. Engineers did not enter "the reactor..." they entered the reactor building, and they didn't see the top five feet of anything. Here is a link to the daily data from the site, untouched by reporters, if you're technically inclined:
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