Robots enter Fukushima reactors

Robots enter Fukushima reactors
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Summary A remote-controlled robot was used to enter reactor buildings to take radiation readings.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) released video taken by robots from inside the reactor buildings of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant although humidity prevented radiation readings being taken inside Reactor 2. Japan is renowned for its cutting edge technology, it also maintains an anachronistic element in its society that relies on humans for tasks that have given way to automation in many other parts of the world.

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