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Default Chernobyl: New Safe Confiement now moving into position

On 16-Nov-16 9:27 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
It seems really crazy that in our age we still cannot make some robot able
to dismantle this broken reactor and clean up the site, we are still just
hiding it. I guess it will stand as a monument to human stupidity for many
years to come.


They tried robots at the time of the accident. The radiation fried their
circuits. The simplest answer is to protect the site and come back when
the radiation has fallen to manageable levels, which is what they are
doing with this shield.


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