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A wee speck o’ nuclear treasure be snagged from a cursed Japanese shipwreck, inchin’ closer to a tidy deck! Arrr!

2024-11-07

Arrr, after losin' track o' time in them cursed ruins o' Fukushima, a wee metal matey has swiped a smidge o' melted treasure from the depths! Aye, it be nuclear gold, but I reckon it be more trouble than a kraken in a teacup!

Arrr, mateys! Gather 'round as I spin ye a yarn of a brave little robot, Telesco, sent to plunder the deep, dark belly of the Fukushima Daiichi wreck! This mechanical buccaneer spent many moons within the cursed ruins of a nuclear reactor, and on a fateful day, it nabbed a wee sample of melted nuclear fuel, no bigger than a grain of rice! Aye, that be a mighty tiny treasure indeed!

The fine folks at Tokyo Electric Power Company be sayin’ this sample marks the end of the mission, and it’s off to the labs for a thorough examination! With this morsel, they hope to chart a course for the cleanup of a staggering 880 tons of melted gooey mess that’s been makin’ the locals flee since the calamity struck in 2011.

But fear not, me hearties, for this be just the start! More sampling missions be needed, and it may take longer than a pirate's lifetime to fully decommission this beast. The sample be less radioactive than feared, raising eyebrows among the crew, yet TEPCO swears it's the real deal! So hoist the sails, and let’s wish our robotic matey fair winds on its quest through the treacherous waters of radiation! Arrr!

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