Robot Explores Interior Of Fukushima Reactor

  • 9 years ago
As a means of investigating the interiors of the disabled nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan, a robot was developed for the task and sent into the number 1 reactor.

It’s been 4 years since the nuclear reactor meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan and conditions inside remain far too dangerous for human exploration. 

As a means of investigating the interiors, a robot was specially developed for the task and sent into the number 1 reactor. 

Designed to last 10 hours, the machine stopped working after only 3.

Researchers and engineers are uncertain as to why it abruptly ceased to function, but in the time it was operable a number of important images and readings were relayed. 

The scene is every bit as 

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