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Robots – very limited ability to do nuclear cleanup

Japan Nuclear Expert: Humans must ‘decommission’ Fukushima reactors ― Robots can’t do anything basically (VIDEOS) http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-expert-decommissioning-fukushima-reactors-be-humans-robots-anything-basically-video
October 23rd, 2012
Watch video of the interview here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stBmhNY6X58
Interview with Hiroaki Koide
Upload by: 座間宮 ガレイ
Filmed: Oct. 18, 2012
Translation: Fukushima Diary

Hiroaki Koide, Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute: You should think robot can’t do anything basically. It has nothing to do with settling the situation. […] They can’t be a help at all. […] Japan hasn’t developed a robot for nuclear emergency at all on the
assumption that nuclear accident can never happen. However, some European nations and US have such robots indeed, but their capacity is very limited regardless of remote controlling technology. After all, it must be done by human

October 25, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general