Japanese robot "died" after three hours in a nuclear reactor "Fukushima-1"

The company Tepco stopped trying to restore the snake-like robot sent on a Japanese nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1" seriously affected by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. As a result, the amount of emitted radiation by 30 per cent over the emissions of the Chernobyl in 1986.

10 APR 60-centimeter-tall robot production Hitachi was sent to one of the damaged reactors of NPP "Fukushima-1". This is the first robot launched for the study of the protective shell of the reactor in 2011, according to IBTimes.

A remote-controlled robot moves with a tiny caterpillar crawls. The machine is also able to make a U shape, moving back and forth like a tank.

Three hours later, the operators lost control of a robot. All attempts to revive him failed. However, the robot had to study 14 of the 18 planned locations.

Tepco said that is not going to revive a stuck robot. The company plans to continue the mission with another machine, which will be sent after him.

Tepco calls the study of the damaged reactor with the help of a robot-snake "unprecedented experiment" which will allow engineers to obtain important information necessary for the preservation of the station.

In the past in reactors "Fukushima" and visited 15 other robots. All of them were successfully returned.

The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami amounted to 16 000 people. And although none of them died from radiation exposure, the radiation continues to pose a great danger to the residents of a number of areas near nuclear disaster.

In the four years since the disaster, Japan has contributed more than $ 15 billion for the implementation of measures to reduce pollution to the nearby nuclear power plant territories with radioactive particles. However, very few people believe the promises of Tokyo, to clear and close the station for 30 years.published

Source: hi-news.ru