"Relax. I'll handle this."
The debris is believed to have been created as nuclear fuel inside the reactor pressure vessel overheated and melted due to the loss of reactor cooling functions.
In the coming weeks, the plant operator plans to deploy a remote-controlled robot to check conditions inside the containment vessel,
but the utility is likely to have to change its plan.
For one thing, it will have to reconsider the route the robot is to take to probe the interior because of the hole found on the grating.
Also, given the extraordinary level of radiation inside the containment vessel, the robot would only be able to operate for less than two hours before it is destroyed. (Emphasis Mine)
That is because the robot is designed to withstand exposure to a total of up to 1,000 sieverts of radiation.
Based on the calculation of 73 sieverts per hour, the robot could have operated for more than 10 hours,
but 530 sieverts per hour means the robot would be rendered inoperable in less than two hours.(Emphasis mine)
(More information available at the news source)
Send in Shinzo Abe-
Uh Oh, here we go again. I absolutely do not trust nuclear power plants because man hasn’t yet shown he really knows what he’s dealing with. Kinda like a baby with a loaded shotgun.
Not to worry, it’s all headed to the bottom of the Pacific
Or the bottom of the bottom of the Pacific e
>A record radiation level has been detected inside the No. 2 reactor at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex,
Get back to us when you show the scale difference between this and the outer core of a Neutron star.
The term Atom may be a misnomer and Particles just a current limit to what we see but we will press on. Go away fake and fanatic news.
The China Syndrome... in Japan.
53,000 Rads (Rem) per hour.
California will declare the radiation illegal and endangering and then tax itself accordingly.
It just shows that we have not fully mastered the operation of nuclear energy, worldwide.
That’s why we should develop our LNG industry as part of Trump’s energy independence program.
LNG is safer to handle than uranium even when spilled and it does not require storage of waste material, it is environmental friendly and we have plenty of it when fully developed and there is a hungry world market for this fuel.
Most importantly: it is easier for terrorists to use radioactive material as a weapon of terror than LNG is.
America must maximize its LNG production.
After that — MAGA, MAGA, MAGA from here all the way to the horizon.
If I recall, they have already burned up some robots.
They’re gonna need a lot more Boron.
Nuclear is very safe. Just locate the nuclear core where liberals are in LA & NY cities. EO coming.
Actually, a geiger counter, check your food & fish, you will survive ok.
How does radiation destroy the robot?
Here is a link to the technical report for this study, if you want something other than from the popular media (which tends to be a bit embellished).
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2017/images/handouts_170130_02-e.pdf
Enough there for an explosion?