A top Energy Department official said Tuesday that a shipment of "radiation hardened robotics" will assist Japan in the crisis along with several radiation-hardened cameras. The device being shipped to Japan is equipped to provide visuals, radiological surveys and mapping data in areas of the plant not accessible to humans due to elevated radiation levels.

(China.org.cn April 1, 2011)

美國能源部一位官員周二表示，政府將輸送一批抗輻射機器人與數個抗輻射攝像頭到日本，用于在電站因高輻射量人不能進入的區域拍攝圖像、檢測輻射量、進行數據測繪等工作。