{"id":70390,"date":"2017-06-15T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/swimming-robot-to-probe-damage-at-japan-nuclear-plant"},"modified":"2017-06-15T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:22:43","slug":"swimming-robot-to-probe-damage-at-japan-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/swimming-robot-to-probe-damage-at-japan-nuclear-plant","title":{"rendered":"Swimming robot to probe damage at Japan nuclear plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swimming-robot-to-probe-damage-at-japan-nuclear-plant.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) \u2014 A Japanese industrial group unveiled Thursday a robot designed for underwater probes of damage from meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.<\/p>\n<p>Remote controlled robots are key to the decades-long decommissioning process for the plant. But super-high radiation and structural damage inside the reactors hampered earlier attempts to inspect areas close to the reactors\u2019 cores.<\/p>\n<p>The developers say they plan to send the new \u201cmini manbo,\u201d or \u201clittle sunfish,\u201d probe into the primary containment vessel of Unit 3 at Fukushima in July to study the extent of damage and locate parts of melted fuel thought to have fallen to the bottom of the chamber, submerged by highly radioactive water.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/135f2af1494e480990fff330e813f685\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/135f2af1494e480990fff330e813f685<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) \u2014 A Japanese industrial group unveiled Thursday a robot designed for underwater probes of damage from meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Remote controlled robots are key to the decades-long decommissioning process for the plant. But super-high radiation and structural damage inside the reactors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}