{"id":73602,"date":"2017-10-31T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-robots-helping-to-clear-up-fukushima"},"modified":"2017-10-31T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:42:46","slug":"the-robots-helping-to-clear-up-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/the-robots-helping-to-clear-up-fukushima","title":{"rendered":"The robots helping to clear up Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-robots-helping-to-clear-up-fukushima.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots have become central to the cleaning-up operation at Japan\u2019s Fukushima nuclear power plant, six years after the tsunami that triggered the nuclear meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that around 600 tonnes of toxic fuel may have leaked out of the reactor during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo Electric Power Company is using a variety of robots to explore areas too dangerous for people to go near.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/technology-41584738\/fukushima-disaster-the-robots-going-where-no-human-can\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/technology-41584738\/fukushima-dis...-human-can<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots have become central to the cleaning-up operation at Japan\u2019s Fukushima nuclear power plant, six years after the tsunami that triggered the nuclear meltdown. It is estimated that around 600 tonnes of toxic fuel may have leaked out of the reactor during the incident. The Tokyo Electric Power Company is using a variety of robots [\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-73602","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\/73602","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=73602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}