Las Vegas officials are up in arms about the Union government ’s plans to put in nuclear waste material at nearby Yucca Mountain . Do n’t worry , the feds respond — we ’ll ramp up an US Army of super - robots to address it .
The federal governance has subject text file in court , explaining its program to plow with the highly toxic atomic barren . The plans apparently affect high - tech metal containers that have n’t been invented yet , massive titanium shields that will be watertight to forestall corrosive water from getting at the waste containers , and a huge army of awesome golem that will go in 100 age from now and seal the place up . Says Rep. Shelley Berkley :
At the goal of 100 geezerhood they are going to send an army of golem — recall ‘ I , Robot ’ — marching down underneath Yucca Mountain to install yet - to - be - invented titanium cuticle . It ’s backbreaking to fathom anyone suggesting it , let alone the writing table of energy .
The feds respond that it ’s no big batch , because cave run to be sealed off naturally . Just think of all those prehistorical cave picture that survived to the present day , says project director Rod McCullum .
At least the robot army has been taken seriously enough that the feds have alreadydone some researchon fuel cell that could survive in 180 degrees celsius hotness and 200 radian / hour radiation :
The Performance Confirmation program of the Yucca Mountain Repository Development Project need to employ remotely operated robots to work inside the emplacement drifts which will have an environment undesirable for humans ( radiation surround of up to 200 rad / time of day ( mostly gamma rays , some neutrons ) ) and maximal temperatures of 180 C. The golem will be necessitate to manoeuvre inside the trend for up to 8 hours per mission . base on available functional prerequisite , we have developed the play along specification for the power need by the automaton :
Somebody , somewhere , has to have a repugnance movie script about this . Nuclear waste , killer robots , Las Vegas , mutant … total on . I sense a Drunken Pitchmaster moment coming on . [ Las Vegas Sun ]
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