That one’s somewhat badly researched and has terrible translation as well as overly dramatic interpreters.

Another scenario that is entirely plausible is one of the hundreds of folks charged with cleaning up the mess posed the items together to help mentally cope with the stress of the disaster they were going through. It happens.

If nuclear energy is neither cheap nor safe, why the HECK are we risking using it (other than to line the wallets of some very selfish and myopic people), who’s gonna watch these plants if civilization decays?!?

P.S. I think the president of that Japanese nuclear power company (who chose profit over safety) should be INSIDE helping to clean up HIS mess!

This manipulation leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I wish the photos got less publicity. There are a lot of poignant images from the area that didn’t require manipulation to obtain. But, as this image provided by Miles O’Brien goes to show, I’m sure it’s irresistible to most. As a photographer, if I went there I would avoid those kinds of images like the plague (or, like radiation perhaps).

The cost benefit analysis says that they can build a robot for xxx million and produce it or hire cheap humans for only x million. What they dont want to admit is that it is more cost effective to send humans to their deaths than build the robot. Thank goodness it is still considered bad PR to plan for killing humans to clean up your radioactive mess.

Here is a question: Since the power companies didn’t bear the cost of cleaning up their mess with the development of radioactive resistant robots, who will? Shouldn’t this cost be included in the cost per kilowatt? If robots arent ready to clean up it will be humans. Historically humans have used other subjugated human races for doing dangerous work. But with the global community watching they Japanese can’t force subjegated races of humans to do the cleaning. They have to trick people to do it (early Chernobyl didn’t tell workers the whole truth) or take volunteers for honor or money.

All this could have been dealth with if money was spent to create disaster robots or powerful telepresence robots. Instead we have COSplay maid robots because that is what “the market” wanted.

Man, why can’t we just bury the whole place? One way or the other we have to bury Chernobyl.

The modern interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev are fascinating. He doesn’t hold much back and paints a pretty scary picture of how things were unfolding from his view.

I used to be interested in robots a lot and watched with glee the development of battlebots. It was a smart way to drive clever thinkers without a war.

If materials are a problem, the robots only last 3 days, then build 30,000 of them. But again, someone also looked at the numbers and the possibility of a radioactive disaster and said, “Nah, spend the money of sex robots, war drones, car making or chip making robots we can sell lots of them.

This research could have been funded with Chernobyl in mind. I watched the Battle for Chernobyl suggested above. If robots were designed to be in Chernobyl they could work in Japan. We had 25 years to do the work, but instead we looked to cheap expendable human lives. A cost that the powers that be understood but hoped they wouldn’t have to be called out on before the next disaster. There is a speadsheet someone where that calculates the cost of human lives vs. the development cost of disaster robots instead.