Robots Sent To Clean Up Fukushima Power Plant Have “Died”

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The Fukushima power plant two years after the meltdown in 2013. IAEA Imagebank/Flick CC BY-SA 2.0

The robots who went into Fukushima's no-man's land have not returned after radiation levels in the power plant proved too strong for their circuit boards to handle.  

The clean-up continues almost five years to the day after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station experienced three meltdowns after a tsunami crashed into the coastal power plant in 2011. The deathly high levels of radiation means it’s impossible for humans to go into areas of the plant to dispose of or contain the radioactivite materials. And it turns out, robots don't fare much better either.