Looks like the foreign media are drumming up for the nuclear catastrophe story. The reason of initial "meltdown" was reportedly the pump failure to supply cooling water to the reactor. The situation seems to be under control at this point. They are not saying "safe" because there are other reactors to be taken care of and (direct) aftershocks to nuclear power plants can't be ruled out. Currently the media attentions are mainly on the power outage issues.