TOKYO -- Readings Monday from robots that entered two crippled buildings at Japan's tsunami-flooded nuclear plant for the first time in more than a month displayed a harsh environment still too radioactive for workers to enter.
Nuclear officials said the radiation data for Unit 1 and Unit 3 at the tsunami-flooded Fukushima Dai-ichi plant - collected by U.S.-made robots that look like drafting lamps on treads - do not alter plans for stabilizing the complex by year's end under a road map released by the plant operator Sunday.
With the public growing increasingly frustrated at the slow response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises, parliament grilled Prime Minister Naoto Kan and officials from plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
You should be bowing your head in apology. You clearly have no leadership at all, Masashi Waki, a lawmaker from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, shouted at Kan.
I am sincerely apologizing for what has happened, Kan said, stressing that the government was doing all it could to handle the unprecedented disasters.
TEPCO's president, Masataka Shimizu, looked visibly ill at ease as lawmakers heckled and taunted him.
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Nuclear officials said the radiation data for Unit 1 and Unit 3 at the tsunami-flooded Fukushima Dai-ichi plant - collected by U.S.-made robots that look like drafting lamps on treads - do not alter plans for stabilizing the complex by year's end under a road map released by the plant operator Sunday.
With the public growing increasingly frustrated at the slow response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises, parliament grilled Prime Minister Naoto Kan and officials from plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
You should be bowing your head in apology. You clearly have no leadership at all, Masashi Waki, a lawmaker from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, shouted at Kan.
I am sincerely apologizing for what has happened, Kan said, stressing that the government was doing all it could to handle the unprecedented disasters.
TEPCO's president, Masataka Shimizu, looked visibly ill at ease as lawmakers heckled and taunted him.
Rest of article: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/18/robot-in-japanese-reactors-detects-high-radiation/
