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For Fukushima s nuclear disaster, robots offer a sliver of hope
On March 11, 2011, the worst nuclear disaster in history hit like a bomb. Even now, robots are just getting close enough to see how bad it really is.
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Editor s note:
This story originally ran on March 4, 2018, and we re reposting it for the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to give readers a sense of the technology being employed to fix this enormous problem, which continues today. To learn more about the ongoing cleanup efforts, read Japan s
earlier this month.
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