I'm going to suggest running away really fast...
Posted on 04/13/2015 12:33:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Decommissioning work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suffered a setback after a robot sent in to a damaged reactor to locate melted fuel stalled hours into its mission and had to be abandoned.
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said the robot stopped moving on Friday during its first inspection of the containment vessel inside reactor No 1, one of the three reactors that suffered meltdown after the plant was struck by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Tepco, which recently conceded that the technology for robots to retrieve the nuclear fuel had yet to be developed, said on Monday it would cut the cables to the stranded robot and postpone a similar inspection using a separate device.
Developed by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy and the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, the robot was supposed to be able to function for about 10 hours even when exposed to radiation at levels that would cause ordinary electronic devices to malfunction.
The “transformer” robot, which can alter its shape depending on its surroundings, was sent in to photograph the inside of the reactor containment vessel and record temperatures and radiation levels
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Well, Transformers are 'robots in disguise.'.
The heat and radiation gave Mr. Robot a stroke.
Particle radiation punches molecular sized holes in things.
Cells die and electronics malfunction.
This sounds like a super-villain origin.
“He’ll be back.”
Oh, no, there goes Tokyo....
It always makes me wonder what Shima did that deserved such abusive language.
Sayonara, Mr. Roboto?
Well, they should have clad the robot in lead.
Well, I guess it told us something about the radiation levels.
ご苦労様でした、ロボットさん (Thank you, Mr. Robot)
Sounds like it found molten something real good.
Worse mileage that way. Gasoline is expensive.
“I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.”
Would it be unreasonable to assume that Fukushima is a far more serious, lethal and problematic disaster than many assume? The MSM seems to avoid covering this for some reason.
Shoulda bought a Toyota.
Big Media can't tell a nuclear family from a nuclear reactor from a nuclear bomb. Big Media thought nuclear magnetic resonance had something to do with radiation. Of course they don't cover it. They don't understand it. Kim Kardassian's gluteus maximus is more their speed ...
Guess that means they will have to ditch the “no robots were harmed during the making of this movie” line from the credits at the end of the show...
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