Comment Re: Unfair competition (Score 1) 29
You seem to be comparing FLL with FRC.
Here's a dose of reality. This does not include the money for the Bot itself, which can be up to 4000 dollars
http://www.usfirst.org/robotic...
Submission + - TEPCO workers remove wrong pipe, splashed with highly radioactive water. (huffingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A day after TEPCO workers mistakenly turned off cooling pumps serving the spent pool at reactor #4 at the crippled nuclear plant comes a new accident — 6 workers apparently removed the wrong pipe *(Huffpo) from a primary filtration system and were doused with highly radioactive water.
They were wearing protection yet such continuing mishaps and "small mistakes" are becoming a pattern at the facility. Some suggest the mistakes are a result of low morale among workers and with potential consequences for such mistakes in the extreme, at what threshold must the Japanese government step in to ensure safe operations? Are larger disasters*(RT news) still quite possible at Fukushima?
They were wearing protection yet such continuing mishaps and "small mistakes" are becoming a pattern at the facility. Some suggest the mistakes are a result of low morale among workers and with potential consequences for such mistakes in the extreme, at what threshold must the Japanese government step in to ensure safe operations? Are larger disasters*(RT news) still quite possible at Fukushima?
Comment Re:WOW. Sensationalism at work (Score 1) 190
Good post. Fact is that the spent fuel has been in the pools for 3 years and is almost ready for dry cask storage, which starts at unit 4 next month.
