To deal with the problems Italy now has a government of a kind virtually unknown elsewhere, one led by nonpolitical technicians.
These devices require a range of constant maintenance by skilled and certified technicians.
But is the surveillance carried out by live technicians?
Here, six ancient figures sleep, attached to machines and attended by masked technicians.
Vivian recalls undergoing tests by various medical technicians and being the subject of grand rounds.
And last month an error by technicians testing equipment caused thousands of dollars in damage.
That could mean a strike next month by the engineers and technicians.
However, the show was blacked out on TV due to a last minute strike by technicians.
Our subsystems must be maintained and sometimes even replaced by technicians.
The accident occurred during an attempt by technicians to start the chain reaction inside the reactor.