{"id":2494,"date":"2017-01-31T04:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2017-02-28T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:03:59","slug":"robot-to-be-used-to-investigate-interior-of-fukushima-daiichi-2-reactor-containment-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/news\/2494","title":{"rendered":"Robot to Be Used to Investigate Interior of Fukushima Daiichi-2 Reactor Containment Vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The self-propelled robot, made by Toshiba Corporation, measures 54cm long, 9cm wide and 9cm high, and is equipped with a radiation dosimeter and thermometer. It can be remotely controlled via a wire cable. In the central area of the containment vessel, an assembly of LED lights at the back of the robot can be turned up like the tail of a scorpion, pointing forward to light a wider area for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>On January 26, a preliminary investigation was conducted using a guide pipe with a camera installed at its tip, following work to make a hole one month earlier on December 23 and 24. Thus far, it has been confirmed that no obstacles exist to the robot&#8217;s operating in the area around the opening, where the preliminary investigation has just started.<\/p>\n<p>TEPCO plans to continue the preliminary investigation, using a spatula-like device to remove any obstacles found to ensure a clear path for the robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The self-propelled robot, made by Toshiba Corporation, measures 54cm long, 9cm wide and 9cm high, and is equipped with a radiation dosimeter and thermometer. It can be remotely controlled via a wire cable. In the central area of the containment vessel, an assembly of LED lights at the back of the robot can be turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[85,326,282,182,123],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fukushima","category-news","tag-decommissioning","tag-fuel-debris","tag-fukushima-daiichi-2","tag-robot","tag-toshiba"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaif.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}