ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 3月11日 15時15分

Photo by @Gerd Ludwig. The British news publication ‘The Independent’ recently reported that the robots sent into Fukushima for cleanup are “dying” at a rate five times higher than expected. Although designed to survive in highly contaminated areas, large amounts of radioactive material are eating away at the robots wiring – rendering them useless.

Six years ago, on March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by one of the most severe earthquakes in recorded history. In the subsequent tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered serious damage that led to several meltdowns in the nuclear reactor releasing large amounts of radioactive materials. It was the largest nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

The news of the robots’ malfunction reminded me of the few times I went into the ill-fated Chernobyl reactor#4 - deeper than any Western still photographer. I had described the harrowing experience in a Proof post on National Geographic a couple of years ago here: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/26/qa-gerd-ludwigs-long-look-at-the-chernobyl-disaster/

My 20 years covering the aftermath of the Chernobyl catastrophe resulted in the book and iPad App ‘The Long Shadow of Chernobyl’. To see more photographs from the inside of the crumbling reactor, go to my IG @Gerd Ludwig where I just published a gallery of pictures from my forays into reactor#4.

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