Tokyo – A distance controlled robot embarked on Tuesday on its second mission to recover small pieces of debris of fuel melted from inside a damaged reactor in the Fukushima Nuclear Plant That was destroyed by a tsunami 14 years ago.
The mission, which follows the First of this type of rubble recovery In November, it aims to finally develop the technology and robots necessary for a larger -scale cleaning of the plant, destroyed by the Earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011.
The extendable “telesco” robot carries cameras and a clamp to grab small pepitas of radioactive debris. He entered the main containment ship of reactor No. 2 on Tuesday, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company.
This time, the company aims to send the robot more to the containment container to obtain a sample of an area closer to the center where it is believed that more melted fuel has fallen.
It is expected to take several days before the front tip of the robot arrives at the target area, where it will reduce a device that carries a clamp and a camera in a fishing row style.
That first sample recovery in November, despite a series of mishaps, was a crucial step in what will be a discouraging and decades that must deal with at least 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel that has been mixed with broken parts of internal structures and other debris inside the rubble inside the rubble inside the rubble inside the rubble inside the rubble. Three reactors ruined in 2011.
After a series of small robots missions to gather samples, experts will determine a higher scale method to eliminate melted fuel, first in reactor No. 3, from the 2030s.
Experts say that the great challenge of dismantling the plant just begins, and that the work could take more than a century.
