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Re:Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot”, Is Still Let... by edblarney on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:47AM (#13105261)
In < 50 years well have robots or remotely controlled robots that can go in there and clean it up.
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Re:Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot”, Is Still Let... by manarth on Monday December 05, 2016 @09:40AM (#13105583)
We've tried this before:

- "Fukushima robot stranded after stalling inside reactor" [1]

- "the robot could remain ambulatory in the radiation field for only 50 minutes, and in fact the robot's lower portion was no longer responding to commands" [2]

Poor robots, always being sent in to die alone.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/13/fukushim...

[2] http://phys.org/news/2005-12-mighty-mouse-robot-frees-stuck....

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Re:Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot”, Is Still Let... by edblarney on Monday December 05, 2016 @11:36AM (#13106615)
That's why I gave a 50 year window.

Today, we don't quite have the ability.

In the future, we will.

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