Fukushima continues

[searcher]

A robot will soon try to remove melted nuclear fuel from Japan's destroyed Fukushima reactor

The operator of Japan’s destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has demonstrated how a remote-controlled robot would retrieve tiny bits of melted fuel debris from one of three damaged reactors later this year.

apnews.com

 

[searcher]

A robot begins removal of melted fuel from the Fukushima nuclear plant. It could take a century

A small robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom.

apnews.com

 

[pmbug]

So it took 3 months after it was first reported for the robot to actually be deployed?

 

[Cigarlover]

Why don't they just stop cooling this thing and let it burn a hole through the mantle. Then the entire place can fall into lava and be gone.

 

[pmbug]

Thirteen years after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, causing a catastrophic meltdown, the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., sent a fishing rod-like robotic device into one of the plant's three damaged reactors to extract the first tiny piece of radioactive material.

AP News reports that Tepco successfully retrieved 2 inches of radioactive material from a mound of molten fuel debris on the bottom of the No. 2 reactor. The 3-gram (0.1-ounce) piece will provide crucial data for the plant's operator to proceed with a decommissioning strategy...

More:

Fishing Rod-Like Robot Retrieves First Melted Fuel Sample From Fukushima Reactor | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com