Robots to retrieve radioactive sandbags at Fukushima nuclear plant

Japan always bragging about robot at the end, cheap worker that being used for cleanup.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Vietnamese-man-surprised-to-be-driven-to-Fukushima-to-do-cleanup-work

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210721/p2a/00m/0na/023000c

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It's been more than 10 years and that clean up never finished.

How much is the financial so far just to get to this stage? And what is the budget per year for cleaning up the mess?

It’s TEPCO’s mess but we the tax payers will pay for cleaning it up.

sakurasukiToday  06:42 am JST

Japan always bragging about robot at the end, cheap worker that being used for cleanup.

Bragging nothing. A radioactive disaster is extremely dangerous. It's far better to have robots handle this kind of work than to risk human lives. If something goes wrong, you just lose a robot.

That's why police are increasingly using robots to detect and possibly defuse bombs. And may I mention drone warfare?

Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto for doing all the jobs that could otherwise get people killed.

I really hope Japan is putting more effort into developing practical use robots. Because this kind of accident involving radioactive material is bound to happen again. And while they're at it, robots for military use should be developed as well.

So it's just an additionally distribution and widespreading of contamination and massive radiation of several Sieverts, outside, on the workers, on the robots and at the containers outside and everything near the building. Makes very much sense, not!

4.4 sieverts per hour is dangerously high. Complicated to remove 2,850 bags from the basements and place them in dry casks.

Probably to date about ¥25 trillion has been paid out with half of that directly from TEPCO. The final costs in many decades to come will be more like ¥100 trillion. The clean-up will take at least until the end of the century and none of us will ever see it.

Photos of Fukushima reactor basements.

https://p.potaufeu.asahi.com/ccfa-p/picture/20699912/4caa2a95e955038c7e3e1c6e2d00fbb1.jpg

The robots will tear open the sandbags releasing the zeolite which will be sucked up.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1F-chart-WEB.jpg

No one would argue that the meltdown at Fukushima was a good thing, but it may turn out that an occasional nuclear meltdown is preferable to a runaway global warming scenario. If we do nothing, the world in a couple of centuries may be a bleak place due to global warming. Nuclear power may be a necessary part of our energy mix.

14 years is way too long to just talk about maybe possibly getting started soonish...

‘As soon as this week’. A case study in unintended irony in journalism

All that radioactive material will be placed in temporary storage containers and then where?

Will it eventually be dumped into the ocean as the Tritium has been?

Japan doesn’t have safe and secure storage facilities for its placement…

The high level of radiation waste from the sandbags will not be dumped into the ocean. Placed in nuclear fuel waste casks just as spent nuclear fuel is. There is a warehouse on the dock with those casks that were not damaged by the earthquake or tsunami. They will be stored there until the government decides its policy on nuclear waste and builds a nuclear waste facility.

A "warehouse on the dock" may not be the best place to guard against the next major tsunami.

1glennToday 08:39 pm JST

A "warehouse on the dock" may not be the best place to guard against the next major tsunami.

There was no damage from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. There is no where else until the government builds a safe deposit site. Every nuclear plant has a warehouse with casks.

https://simplyinfo.org/2012/12/the-future-of-fukushima-daiichi-spent-fuel/