IEEE Spectrum’s Auto­ma­tion Blog has run a series of excep­tion­al art­icles on the Fukushi­ma Dai-Ichi crisis since the earth­quake and tsunami occurred on 11-March Recently they uncovered a blog writ­ten by a robot oper­at­or at the plant that speaks can­didly about the oper­a­tions there and the prob­lems occur­ring as they try to shut the plant down