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Environment & Energy

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts) Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:28 PM Mar 2019

For Fukushima's nuclear disaster, robots may be the only hope

The 2011 meltdown in Japan is still too hot for humans to handle. Send in the machines.

https://www.cnet.com/news/for-fukushimas-nuclear-disaster-robots-may-be-the-only-hope/?ftag=CAD1acfa04&bhid=24447454298893839703959737945916

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For Fukushima's nuclear disaster, robots may be the only hope (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP

But they have to be the right machines caraher Mar 2019 #1

What's to hope for? hunter Mar 2019 #2

caraher

(6,279 posts)

1. But they have to be the right machines

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:10 PM

Mar 2019

As the article notes, the environment is also hostile to sophisticated robots. I suspect what will work best is going to be relatively humble technology that makes little to no use of silicon brains.

hunter

(38,327 posts)

2. What's to hope for?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 11:12 PM

Mar 2019

This disaster will require patience.

Unlike most of the other industrial toxins spilled by the tsunami, toxins having a half life of FUCKING FOREVER, the worst radioactive shit at Fukushima will have decayed in a few hundred years.

But we're all very well trained to ignore the non-radioactive shit.

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