Stabilisation at Fukushima Daiichi

TEPCO reported it [1] and it was picked up by most of the news agencies.

I am really surprised that no one has thought to use an UAV with a camera to do visual inspection near the reactors. I understand the issue of radiation and electronics not working well but it seems like throwing an HD web cam up there would help guide folks. Something that will no doubt be discussed would be better telemetry during events like this. I'm sure secondary systems were in place but it surprised me that without power to the reactor buildings all of the sensor networks were essentially down[2].

[1] http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11032105-e....

[2] One of the news articles on the restoration of power to reactors 1 and 2 reports that this will allow them to read the reactor's sensors again.

By whom? Where?

There are two separate Fukushima nuclear power plants, Fukushima I (Daiichi) and Fukushima II (Daini). The reason we're not hearing much about Fukushima II is that some of the reactors incurred some damage, but it was addressed quickly and all four reactors were in stable cold shutdown by early last week.