“This latest incident and the previous Chuetsu-Oki earthquake indicate that the business risk of operating nuclear power plants in Japan is higher than previously contemplated,” Moody’s analysts including Kenji Okamoto said in a note, putting the company [TEPCO] on a review
Industrial robots state of the art
During the BP Macondo leak I was struck by the enormous level of skill needed by the robot submarine operators and wondered at the apparently low level of automation available to them. But the absence of robotic equipment in the