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10/20/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

NASA plans to genetically modify astronauts so they can survive the journey to Mars

The prospect of humans one day visiting another planet has never seemed more possible than it has in recent years, but several more obstacles need to be overcome before this can become reality. Some people believe that incredible scientific discoveries could be waiting on the red planet, and NASA has recently ramped up its efforts […]

03/09/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Robots keep “dying” from radiation in Fukushima, making the nuclear fallout investigation impossible

On 11 March 2011, Japan was hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, followed shortly thereafter by a huge tsunami, leaving 16,000 people dead and 160,000 homeless. The Fukushima Daiichi power plant, one of the 15 largest in the world, sustained serious damage in the disaster, resulting in the meltdown of three nuclear reactors. The Tokyo […]

02/14/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Fukushima radiation so high a robot would be destroyed in two hours

Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, first commissioned in 1971, was one of the 15 largest nuclear power stations in the world, until it sustained massive damage when Japan was hit first by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and then a massive tsunami, on March 11, 2011. Close to 16,000 people died in the disaster, with […]

12/08/2015 / By Greg White

3D printed robot takes images inside Fukushima reactor 3 for the first time since 2011 disaster

The Fukushima disaster is comparable to a black hole: After three nuclear reactors collapsed to their core, they melted into an abyss of no escape. Since the disaster occurred in 2011, officials haven’t been able to catch a glimpse of what lies inside the ruins of reactor 3 — until now. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) provides […]

09/28/2015 / By Chris Draper

New robot set to explore toxic depths of Fukushima

One of the great difficulties facing the clean-up crew at the Fukushima site is locating the missing nuclear reactor fuel. Radiation levels at the power plant are too high for human investigation, and efforts to send robot probes into the nuclear reactors have proven fruitless. Consequently, researchers are now developing a new and improved robot […]

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