Robot destroyed within 2 hours in reactor 2

 

Following up this article..73Sv/h in container vessel

In this level of radiation, even a disaster dealing robot is collapsed within less than 2 hours.
In Fukushima plants, robot called Quince is used, which is developed by Chiba institute of technology and Tohoku university. Assistant professor Mizutani from Tohoku university states,
“The bottle neck to develop a robot for radioactive circumstances is the semiconductor. Semiconductor is extremely sensitive for radiation. Semiconductor parts of robot used in space are shielded by lead, which is against gamma ray, but lead can’t be used for Quince because it kills cavalry.Technical specification requires Quince to stand only over 3Sv/h. In total, it’s just over 100Sv.

With this level of the specification, Quince can’t last longer than 2 hours in reactor2. If it’s 3Sv/h to stand, Quince can’t last longer than 1 hour and 20 minutes.

2号機格納容器内の線量ではロボットですら2時間で破壊されることが分かりました。
現在、福島ではクインスと呼ばれる災害対応ロボットが使われていますが、開発段階で放射線に耐える能力を評価した東北大大学院の水谷圭司准教授はこう言います。
「高放射線下で動くロボットを開発する上で一番の障害になるのはロボットを制御する半導体部分です。半導体は放射線に著しく弱い。放射線が強い宇宙空間で使われる半導体はガンマ線から守るために厚い鉛で遮蔽されていますが、クインスでは機動性が落ちてしまうので鉛が使われていません。
放射線に耐える能力として、技術仕様ではたった毎時3シーベルト以上、累計で100シーベルト(100グレイ)となっています。」

2号機格納容器では73Sv/hが検出されましたが、この技術仕様では2時間ももたないことになります。
仮に技術仕様で求められる3Sv/hぎりぎりだとすると、わずか1時間20分で破壊されてしまいます。

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I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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