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In < 50 years well have robots or remotely controlled robots that can go in there and clean it up.
by edblarney 10y ago
In < 50 years well have robots or remotely controlled robots that can go in there and clean it up.
- manarth 10y agoWe've tried this before: - "Fukushima robot stranded after stalling inside reactor" [1] - "the robot could remain ambulatory in the radiation field for only 50 minutes, and in fact the robot's lower portion was no longer responding to commands" [2] Poor robots, always being sent in to die alone. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/13/fukushima-robot-stalls-reactor-abandoned https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/13/fukushim... [2] http://phys.org/news/2005-12-mighty-mouse-robot-frees-stuck.html http://phys.org/news/2005-12-mighty-mouse-robot-frees-stuck....
- edblarney 10y agoThat's why I gave a 50 year window. Today, we don't quite have the ability. In the future, we will.