Nuclear fuel in the reactor cores melted after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's cooling systems to fail
Shortly after I returned to the States from Fukushima (a little bit after the disaster), I was taking an emergency response course on radioactivity. Everybody there got to use a Geiger counter on themselves and their belongings and various things in the room. The only thing that set it off was the purse I had brought back with me.
Anecdotal, obviously, and it wasn’t highly radioactive, but I did get rid of the purse.
More relevant is how much damage the radiation will do to the circuit boards. There’s some really small circuitry in there and those energetic particles are going to do some damage every time they smack into stuff.
How radioactive is the robot afterwards?
Shortly after I returned to the States from Fukushima (a little bit after the disaster), I was taking an emergency response course on radioactivity. Everybody there got to use a Geiger counter on themselves and their belongings and various things in the room. The only thing that set it off was the purse I had brought back with me.
Anecdotal, obviously, and it wasn’t highly radioactive, but I did get rid of the purse.
More relevant is how much damage the radiation will do to the circuit boards. There’s some really small circuitry in there and those energetic particles are going to do some damage every time they smack into stuff.
Let’s just say, you wouldn’t want to stand near it.