Tokyo Electric Power Company's Robot Mission to Remove Melted Fuel in Fukushima Daiichi

TapTechNews May 30th news, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Company announced yesterday that the robot mission has entered a new stage and started to remove the melted fuel.

After the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company dispatched robots to clean the nuclear power plant to reduce the number of personnel in a radiation environment. It entered areas that were originally inaccessible, explored the inner buildings, and sent images back to engineers.

Tokyo Electric Power Company and Boston Dynamics have cooperated to develop a quadruped robot Spot, which can not only collect data, take videos, measure radiation doses, but also collect debris samples for radiation testing. TapTechNews attached relevant pictures as follows:

This week, Tokyo Electric Power Company demonstrated a robot equipped with pliers to pick up the melted fuel debris from the three damaged reactors. In the demonstration, the robot slowly descended from a telescopic pipe to a pile of rubble and picked up a stone.