The robot also died at the radioactive area of ​​Fukushima

Robots sent to the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan cannot tolerate high levels of radioactive material causing the wires to dry.

The scene of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant after the disaster.

Five years ago, a 9-magnitude earthquake accompanied by tsunamis struck northeastern Japan coast, completely destroying some districts, killing 19,000 people and damaging 4 reactors at the plant. Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power, causing bad radiation pollution disaster in the country, according to Discovery News.

The process of cleaning up this nuclear power plant is very slow. The remote control robots brought to the reactor to clear the molten nuclear fuel rods die.Their wires burn dry due to the high amount of radioactive material emitted from the reactor.

The deaths of these robots pushed Tokyo Electric Company (Tepco) into a difficult position when trying to handle disaster and radioactive material leaking into the water. According to Science Alert, TEPCO only solved 10% of radioactive waste caused by tsunamis and the melting of the reactor core.

The robot model was built to handle radioactive materials in nuclear reactors.

The robots manufactured by Toshiba have displaced 1,535 unburnt fuel rods from the No. 4 reactor, which has a relatively low radioactivity, allowing for easy work. And the third reactor has much higher levels of radioactivity, exceeding the tolerance of sensitive electronic devices and wires inside the robot.

TEPCO cannot bring new robots to the power plant to complete the work because each robot takes on a special expertise and it takes two years to build them. In fact, engineers cannot create any kind of robot capable of operating in such a high radioactive environment. TEPCO said it will restart the cleanup of the nuclear plant by 2021 and complete it within 30-40 years.