Recently I posted a couple of articles about robots that are being developed to work in hostile environments such as nuclear reactors and nuclear waste facilities. Toshiba has just announced a new remote-controlled robot that it hopes can be used to investigate the three destroyed reactors at the Fukushima site of the 2011 nuclear disaster.
Ambient office = 93 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 105 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 104 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient office = 94 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 119 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 120 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 136 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 135 nanosieverts per hour
Recently, I posted a series of articles on ideas for nuclear weapons and delivery platforms that proved too expensive, dangerous or ineffective to actually construct and deploy. Today I am going to blog about proposals for a nuclear-powered tank.
Ambient office = 112 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 118 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 119 nanosieverts per hour
