Four-legged ‘spot’ robots, developed by US-based Boston Dynamics, have negotiated pitch-black conditions to map an evaporator cell in the fuel cycle area of the Dounreay site in Scotland. Dounreay was the UK’s former fast reactor test facility, which operated from 1955 to 1994. It is now being decommissioned. Ongoing clean-up and dismantling work is continuing. Spot’s task was to map out the four-storey cell, collecting important radiological data for the team to use when planning the decommissioning of the facility; … read more »
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