A small robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom.
        • @lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          13•9 months ago

          The union would be extremely powerful with just one robot though. There would be no competition or different opinions. If the single robot strikes to get better working conditions or better pay, the entire workforce is on strike.

          • @sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9•9 months ago

            yes yes, but the robot cannot strike, you see, because one robot must make the strike motion, another robot must second the strike motion, and then all the robots must vote. if there is no robot to second the strike motion, then no robots may vote, meaning the strike cannot pass.

            • flickerEnglish
              7•9 months ago

              I would like to add to this conversation, “I’ve talked it over with myself and I’ve decided I’m going on strike,” is an extremely powerful thing to say.

              …I didn’t promise my addition would be valuable.

    • kingthrillgoreEnglish
      18•9 months ago

      It may take a century not because of robot costs, but because the materials haven’t decayed enough to store in a dry cask.

    • LiveLMEnglish
      11•9 months ago

      Such a fantastic movie, I need to watch it again

  • @Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10•9 months ago

    It’s okay because as the radiation blasts away at the robots circuitry they’ll have to replace it. Then they could just replace it with a better robot every few years as technology improves. It’ll become exponentially more powerful. And by the end of it they’ll have a superpowered radioactive robot… that they’ve… used for slave labor… Huh. Maybe they should rethink this plan.

    • kingthrillgoreEnglish
      6•9 months ago

      Because they’re going to use specialized cranes to pull that shit out and bury it over the next 100 years (special military operation pending). It was installed with the New Safe Confinement. The entire point of the NSC was to protect the site from disturbance and collapse while they waited for it to be safe enough to disassemble the plant.

    • RubberDuckEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Weren’t there so old people that volunteered for some cleanup jobs, reasoning they had less life left than you get people so the cancer would not get to them in time.

      I think I remember reading something like that.