Tepco Radiation Level Shoot Back Up at 10 sv hotspot

bloomberg.com

7 pointsjoe_the_user5 comments

Mods or OP, will you please change the title? It's Tepco, not Tipco, and even if this was correct, we lack proper context to know what Tepco is or why we should care.

A better title might be:

"Fukushima Radiation Levels Shoot Back Up"

It isn't Tepco either, but TEPCO and the name should not be foreign to anyone that knows about the issue.

Fukushima is the prefecture that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in. It is around the size of Connecticut. If there are high radiation levels as Millstone (a nuclear plant in Connecticut) you do not say that there are high levels of radiation in Connecticut.

The title on Bloomberg is also incorrect, then: "Tepco Reports Second Deadly Radiation Reading at Fukushima Nuclear Plant"

Japan spends a huge amount of money on robotics research. Are they using any of those advanced robots in the damaged plants?

Yes, they are using robots in areas where radiation levels are lethal, but as the article states "they are no replacement for humans" on site.

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