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| Another Fukushima Fail: Tepco's Toughest Robot Fails Inside Fukushima Reactor
The 'tough-built' radiation-resistant robot, made to withstand up to 1000 sieverts per hour (Sv/hr) of radiation, had to be called back prematurely due to radiation-induced glitches, indicating that radiation levels in Fukushima reactor are even higher than previously estimated. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), the owner and operator of the now-defunct Fukushima-1 nuclear plant in Japan, had to pull its toughest radiation-resistant robot out of its Unit 2 reactor prematurely. The robot, built to withstand up to 1000 Sv/hr, failed to last the projected two hours inside the reactor, before starting to glitch. As Sputnik reported earlier, Fukushima-1 Unit 2 reactor radiation readings had been estimated at "unimaginable" levels of 530 Sv/hr. This level of radiation is beyond extreme, even in comparison to the inside of the Chernobyl reactor, where radiation levels are 'only' 34 Sv/hr. The Chernobyl radiation levels are high enough to cause death in humans in about 20 minutes, and