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I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions > Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
We've seen pictures of the melted core of Chernobyl too (the "Elephant's Foot") havent' we?
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KxRuWaD0sXg/U7MHoNyBuiI/AAAAAAAAJ...
I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions > Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
We've seen pictures of the melted core of Chernobyl too (the "Elephant's Foot") havent' we?
I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions > Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only real difference from your version to the titles is -ese on Japan. 'Likely' is a fine substitute for 'may show', from my perspective.
The OP may have started to read it as "Japan (noun) pictures (verb) likely (adjective)...". Changing "Japan" to "Japanese" and "likely" to "may" eliminates that as a possible interpretation.
Besides that, I'm not sure either "Japan" or "Japanese" is really necessary, because "Fukushima" makes it clear that the pictures are from Japan.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've seen pictures of the melted core of Chernobyl too (the "Elephant's Foot") havent' we?
How do you think those photos were taken? https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KxRuWaD0sXg/U7MHoNyBuiI/AAAAAAAAJ...
I still don't see why they are spending years trying to make rad hard robots. A long steel tube with fiber optics to pipe in light, mirrors and optics to transmit an image down the tube would be infinitely easier. They'd need to burn a few holes, but none of the reactor vessels are intact so that wouldn't allow additional radioactive material to escape. I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium…
I still don't see why they are spending years trying to make rad hard robots. A long steel tube with fiber optics to pipe in light, mirrors and optics to transmit an image down the tube would be infinitely easier. They'd need to burn a few holes, but none of the reactor vessels are intact so that wouldn't allow additional radioactive material to escape. I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium…
Why does that surprise you?
As I feel incompetent to comment on the article's content, I'll be glad to start a thread on the linguistics of that car crash of a headline. It took me three or four fresh starts to parse it correctly. The linguistic term for this is garden path sentence[1][2] and it's such a good one that it makes me wonder if it's deliberate. Even just some small adjustments would make it more readable: "Japanese pictures may show…
Melted Fukushima fuel photographed for the first time. First photos of melted Fukushima fuel. If you take away the tentativeness of "may", "likely", etc., you can make the sentence much easier to read. I wouldn't mind a slight lack of qualifiers as long as the whole thing is not too linkbaity and the content puts the qualifiers back where they belong.
I still don't see why they are spending years trying to make rad hard robots. A long steel tube with fiber optics to pipe in light, mirrors and optics to transmit an image down the tube would be infinitely easier. They'd need to burn a few holes, but none of the reactor vessels are intact so that wouldn't allow additional radioactive material to escape. I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium…
That seems likely to degrade the fiber, or the signal and I'm having trouble thinking of any tested fiber in the range of a molten reactor core. The flux is really crazy near that thing, and not just photons, but relativistic electrons and some very angry helium nuclei.
I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions > Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
Radioactive shielding is just a bunch of heavy metal. The robot probably has terrible maneuverability and even worse battery life :p
Shielding is hard.
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