It's been almost five years since the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, but the scale of the emergency means Japan is still at the relative beginning of efforts to clean up and contain the radioactive site.
So this week Toshiba unveiled a remote-control robot that's expected to remove fuel-rod assemblies from the spent fuel pool in the plant's reactor 3 building, according to a report by Kazuaki Nagata at The Japan Times.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the Japanese utility that maintains the site, has acknowledged that the high level of radiation in the reactor 3 building means it's impossible for humans to safely remove the fuel-rod assemblies. Because of this, a device like the robotic crane – which you can see in action in the video below – is necessary.
Specially designed by Toshiba – the original supplier of Fukushima's reactor 3 and reactor 5 decades ago – the machine features robotic arms that can be used to manipulate and dismantle debris, and to retrieve rods from the reactor cooling pool.
Read more: http://www.sciencealert.com/japan-unveils-remote-control-robot-to-dismantle-fukushima-nuclear-plant
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