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March 25, 2016

TEPCO bungles Fukushima cleanup as robots damaged by Radiation
Tokyo (Sputnik) Mar 25, 2016
The much-maligned Japanese energy company is at it again with another technological failure. Cleanup efforts at the shuttered and leaking Fukushima nuclear plant hit the skids this week as officials were confronted with a new and unexpected challenge: radiation levels are so high that a particularly damaged reactor cannot be accessed, even by robots. Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) head of decommissioning, Naohiro Masuda, commented "it is extremely difficult to access the inside of th ... read more

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