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Anyone know what triggered the story getting picked up? Very good to see!

Robot, drone fail on nuclear plant missions
NATIONAL JUN. 25, 2011 - 06:21AM JST ( 11 ). www.japantoday.com Apparently, besides the drone crashing, Japan's first Fuku robot failed big time as well.

Night all!

Nite LM

Sharp to build solar stations in Japan www.asahi.com They are also working on an L-ion home battery system.

@Veen which ep?

Honda made a cool butane gennie for backup home power. japantechniche.com

California Department of Public Health Radiation Monitoring Report June 21, 2011 Trace amounts of radiation were detected in milk sampled from the San Luis Obispo area. cdph.ca.gov

TEPCO unable to gauge No.2 reactor water level
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it still cannot obtain accurate data on the water level and pressure of the Number 2 reactor. It says a provisional measuring device installed earlier this week is not operating properly.
Tokyo Electric Power Company believes that readings by the original device are incorrect due to damage suffered in the March disaster.
Workers at the utility company entered the Number 2 reactor building and installed the provisional gauge on Wednesday. The company initially planned to have the gauge begin providing data on Thursday.
But it says as of Saturday, the device is not yet working properly.
TEPCO says this is because the temperature near the reactor containment vessel is so high that water inside the device's pipes has evaporated.
Fuel meltdowns are believed to have occurred at the Number 1 through Number 3 reactors, leading to a possibility that there is little water left inside the Number 2 reactor.
Accurate measurement of the water level is essential for ensuring stable cooling of the reactor.
The utility is struggling to find ways to activate the device.
Saturday, June 25, 2011 13:21 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

Ministry official who released book criticizing gov't over nuke crisis asked to resign
A government official who released a book on May 20 criticizing the government's response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been asked to leave his post.
Sources say that Shigeaki Koga, 55, attached to the secretariat of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), was asked by Kazuo Matsunaga, a high-ranking METI official, whether he could resign on July 15. Koga is said to have held off on responding, saying the request was "too sudden."
Koga has also pushed for changes to the country's energy policy, such as a separation of electric power generation and transmission fiercely opposed by power companies, and criticized the Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) reforms to the civil service.
Koga entered METI's predecessor in 1980 and has held several posts including head of an economic and industrial policy-making department. Before the DPJ took power, Koga had called for stronger rules against "amakudari" -- the practice of shifting high-level government officials to similarly high-level non-government jobs -- and the elimination of the administrative vice-minister position, but his proposals were rejected. He has been in his current position since December 2009.
(Mainichi Japan) June 25, 2011
mdn.mainichi.jp

And a rare bit of more positive news:
Water treatment system at Fukushima plant achieves decontamination
The glitch-plagued water decontamination system at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex has been able to lower the concentration of radioactive substances in highly contaminated water to the targeted level, the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday.
The successful trial run of the water treatment system paves the way for the start, possibly by the end of June, of operations to cool the damaged nuclear power reactors using water recycled in the decontamination system to establish a circulating cooling system as part of efforts to contain the crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami in March.
The utility known as TEPCO said the level of both radioactive cesium-134 and cesium-137 in the toxic water had dropped to one hundred-thousandth, achieving the target of 100 becquerels per cubic centimeter or less.
mdn.mainichi.jp

@elaine - quite, as is usual in govt. reports it is often the things that are missed out that are the most informative, if you see what I mean!