On 16/11/16 12:10, Nightjar wrote:
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.


Yup. Of course the likes of harry always yell 'not a single power
station decommissioned yet' which is

- a lie, because several have been, and
- disingenuous, because its way easier to simply let them cool down for
50 years or more first...

Robots can be hardened against radiation are are routinely used for all
sorts of purposes inside reactors.


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