It seems that almost daily the amateurs at Tokyo Electric Power Co. plead that human error has caused some disruption in the cooling or radioactive water containment procedures at Tepco's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Perhaps it is time for Tepco to start deploying robots to replace these workers.
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