The diary of
Fukushima’s Return (on going process)
In 2011, the nuclear disaster that
shocked the whole world after 1986 Chernobyl disaster was The Fukushima Daichii
Nuclear disaster. On March 11, 2011, Tsunami caused by Tohoku earthquake hits
the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant, resulting in the catastrophic
failure of the nuclear operation system. On March 12, 2011, the nuclear
radioactive substance began to leaks from the three out of six nuclear
reactors. The amount of radioactive measured by INES was at Level 7, which is about
30% of Chernobyl disaster.
TEPCO (Tokyo
Electric Power Company)
The incident forced 300,000 people
to leave their home immediately and 8 towns around the Fukushima power plant
have become ghost towns.
Three years later, the power plant still facing the problem of the
radioactive leaks, leaving the area unlivable for at least 50 years.
Bamboo is one of the fastest
growing plants in the world and their benefit is versatile. It can satisfy 4
factors of living that are food, habitat, clothes and medicine. Bamboo is very
strong yet have high elasticity property, it can be used for building
structures and also can be used for textile and paper. As technology advance,
the research and study shows that bamboo fiber can be used as a composite
material that can be used for vehicle and even for building material.
The
Bamboo-Active
Therefore, the project aims to develop
the Fukushima ghost town into the center of advance bamboo composite material
factory and research center for radioactive substance and bamboo material. Consisting
of 4 facilities; the research center, robots housing, bamboo factory and
material-making factory, located at the entrance of the Fukushima power plant. The
material will help recover the leaks of the nuclear power plant.
The bamboo fiber composite material will be the material used for
construction of the nuclear power plant around the world, with its strength and
ability to withstand the earthquake.
Since it cannot be live by human, the majority of the inhabitants are
robots that dividing in to Industrial robots and Humanoid. Industrial robots
will include the transport robots, forestation and harvesting robots, and
factory robots. Humanoid will be the middle communicator between human and
robots, they will also be the one who is controlling the robots in site and
take care of the production.
Divided into 4 phases by starting at the outer area of restriction zone
and will narrow down as the project keeps going. The first phase is about
settling down, bamboo planting and decontaminating the area. The construction
of 4 facilities will be done in this phase.
People who enter the restricted zone
will have to go through the Gateway to change into the radioactive protection
suite. Surrounded by the bamboo grove, they will lead to the research center,
robots housing and etc. People can visit the research center for educational
trip or joining the research team. The robots housing connected to the research
center will consist of preparation area, meeting room, press conference room
and the tearoom. The tearoom is where people meet the humanoid with the view of
the bamboo grove and the factories, they can see the robots working in far
away.
The Operation Starts in the middle of year 2014, June 15, because it
was the rainy seasons, the best seasons to plant bamboo. We sent the Plantation
robots in the 20 km. restriction area consisting of xx of Excavator robots, xx of
Planting robots and xx of maintenance robots. The duty of these robots was to
grow the Bamboos in the designated area. The excavator started to dig up the
soil in grid-like pattern as it was programmed and left the soil next to the
pits. Followed by the planting robot, its duty was too plant the baby bamboo
and cover up the soil around the bamboo. After that the maintenance robots took
care of the pruning, watering and fertilizing for about 5 years. The total of
planting bamboo in first phase was xxx square meter.
On June 14, 2017, the robots shifted the plantation process into 15 km.
restriction area, same operation was done as the 20 km. restriction area
plantation.
The harvest season started on July 30, 2019, the end of rainy season
and the start of dry season. This time we sent xx of cutting robots, xx of pick
up robots and xx of transportation robots. The cutting robots scanned each
bamboo in order to determined the proper size and the right property of
contained fiber that needed for construction and bamboo fiber material. The
pick up robots then collected the fresh cut bamboo stem and put all together in
one big pile for the transportation robots to pick up all the bamboo stem and
transport to the where the facilities located. The harvesting was done by August
26, 2019.
At the same time, we also sent the
construction robots to the site, which located around the power plant entrance.
They have started the construction of 4 facilities after they got the bamboo
stems from the transportation robots. All of the facilities were completed on
October 29, 2019.
The decontamination process then
took place after the completion of first phase harvesting, which is August 27,
2019. Consisting of xx of excavator robots, xx of – robots and xx of
transportation robots.
On November 1, 2019 was the first
date of facilities operation. The research center consisting of lobby, 2
laboratories, 1 library, 1 meeting room, 1 storage and toilets, involved 8
practitioners that are 6 researcher and 2 technicians. Other than that was
operates by humanoids and robots. In the research center we have the total of 5
humanoid; 1 receptionist, 1 maid and 2 laboratory’s assistants. Next to the
research center is teahouse, perhaps the most critical facility out of all. The
corridor connected the research center to another meeting room, this meeting
room were made especially for visitor. On the left side is Press conference
room which was first used the same date as its opening. Next from meeting room
is the teahouse room, it is the place where visitor communicates with the
humanoids.
After the tea ceremony was done, the
room that was surrounded by close partition can be sliding open, and then you
can see factory and the robots that were working……
We started to complete the
production of the first lot of bamboo fiber on November 9, 2019 and first lot
of material on November 15, 2019.
On December 25, 2019, we manage to
successfully recover the leaks of 4 reactors in Fukushima daichii nuclear power
plant.
To be continued......
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