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(insert bad joke about non-user-replacable iNuke battery here) I rather suspect the batteries are not easily replaced - they're a tertiary system, designed to
by cheald 16y ago
(insert bad joke about non-user-replacable iNuke battery here)
I rather suspect the batteries are not easily replaced - they're a tertiary system, designed to be a short-term stopgap to get your primary and secondary systems back online. I'm sure that if just cycling batteries was an option, and the battery systems are operational, they'd do that - it's a heck of a lot cheaper than pulling the killswitch on the whole plant.
- neutronicus 16y agoThe batteries may also be someplace a workman really doesn't want to go.
- gaius 16y agoI'm sure the Japanese have robots capable of it, they are the best in the world at that.
- JanezStupar 16y agoWell not any robot will do in high radiation environment, since radiation tends to fry their circuits... They tried it in Chernobyl but it didn't really work, so they had to use humans to do it. Every soldier got to run in, move an item, run out and be dismissed from this nuclear cleanup duty, due to irradiation received in this one try.
- jarek 16y agoI would expect robots in Japan in 2011 to be able to withstand a bit more than robots in the USSR in 1986.