A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor
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A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 meltdown.
  • briskEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    successfully clipped a gravel as big as 5 millimeters

    Okay

    (2 inches)

    …what?

    the size of a tiny granola bit

    …what??

    • Dima@lemmy.oneEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      Millimetres, centimetres, who needs orders of magnitude? It’s great to hear this robot was able to pick up the 5km long piece of gravel the size of a small rodent