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Toshiba 4-legged nuclear plant inspection robot

Published on Nov 21, 2012

 

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Nuclear Watch: Fukushima TEPCO releases Reactor footage captured by robot + Abe rate 51% 4/13/2015

Published on Apr 13, 2015

The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has released interior footage of a reactor containment vessel captured by a robot.

Tokyo Electric Power Company sent the remote-controlled robot into the highly contaminated area of the No.1 reactor last Friday to assess damage. But the robot became immobile after advancing about a dozen meters.

On Monday, TEPCO released part of the about 3-hour-long footage recorded by the robot.

The 2-minute 40-second-long clip shows mainly steam. It is thought that water at the bottom of the containment vessel is being evaporated by the heat of the melted nuclear fuel.
The temperature inside the vessel was about 20 degrees Celsius. But the robot recorded up to around 10 sieverts of radiation per hour, a level that could kill a person in about 40 minutes.

The footage shows small bits of debris around the robot, but no major damage to the nearby wall and structures.

TEPCO plans to analyze the footage to consider ways of removing the melted fuel and decommissioning the reactors.

The utility has cut the remote control cable for the robot after giving up on its recovery on Sunday, and postponed a second survey with another robot.

 

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Robots map radiation in Fukushima nuclear plant

Published on Apr 16, 2015

Robots armed with new radiation-sensing cameras are performing surveys in areas of the stricken plant where radiation levels are too high for humans to enter
Full story: "Robots go deep inside Fukushima nuclear plant to map radiation"

by Rob Gilhooly
April 15, 2015

 

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Robots and robotic systems of the Chernobyl (In Russian)

Uploaded on Aug 25, 2010

 

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Article "Dr Rustam Stolkin: Robots that learn: nuclear robotics meets machine learning"

by Susannah Odell
April 21, 2017

 

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Article "'Little sunfish' robot to swim in to Fukushima reactor"

June 16, 2017

 

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Article "Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facility"
Radiation-measuring robots go where humans cannot

March 20, 2018

 

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Article "For Fukushima's nuclear disaster, robots may be the only hope"
The 2011 meltdown in Japan is still too hot for humans to handle. Send in the machines.

by Roger Cheng
March 4, 2019

 

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How robots are cleaning up Fukushima's nuclear disaster

Published on Mar 5, 2019

When the radiation hot zone is too much, it's time to send in the robots.

 

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3D Scanning of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Nov 7, 2021

This video demonstrates some of the results from a scientific deployment to Chernobyl NPP in September 2021 led by University of Bristol.

Our 3D scanning technology was used to build 3D models of various sites with with radiation data (not shown) can be used to monitor the activity levels of remaining nuclear radiation.

"Bristol team gains unprecedented access to Chornobyl’s Reactor 4"

October 7, 2021

 

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Article "Nuclear Power Is Back. And This Time, AI Can Help Manage the Reactors."
Argonne National Lab has an AI-based tool that can help design and operate nuclear reactors—at a time when AI itself is feeding a power frenzy.

by Belle Lin
April 11, 2025