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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Would GE make more money by decommissioning reactors?
In the United States today, there are thirty-five boiling water reactors, of the same type as at Fukushima. Nuclear decommissioning costs around $325 million per plant. So if all the GE plants were to be decommissioned immediately, GE (which would … Continue reading
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Tagged decommissioning, general electric, nuclear power, photovoltaics, solar power
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Fukushima: Cooling pools successfully doused
The Nuclear Energy Institute reports: UPDATE AS OF 10:00 A.M. EDT, SUNDAY, MARCH 20: A two-part operation to spray water into the used fuel pool at Fukushima Daiichi reactor 4 ended just before 7 A.M. EDT. Japan’s defense ministry announced … Continue reading
Robots at Fukushima: a clash of cultures
From Salon Magazine: Where are the robots at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant? Japan employs more robots than any other country . . . So why are human beings manually pouring water over the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate culture, creativity, culture, fukushima, Japanese culture, nuclear power industry, robots, Salon
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The Best SuperMoon Photo Ever (or am I biased?)
Taken with my cell phone around 9:30 last night. Hey, at least it’s not a ‘file photo!’
Updated General Purpose Robot
So far, my robot designs have been pretty much just conceptual, but now I’m starting to think about how they might actually be built to serve a real world purpose. Hence, this shot at a general purpose robot: The red … Continue reading
Finally, mention of robots to Fukushima
Japan Races to Restart Reactors’ Cooling System At the request of the Japanese military, a Massachusetts company, iRobot, said it put four robots on a plane for Japan on Friday. Colin Angle, the chief executive, said it had sent two … Continue reading
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Tagged fukushima, irobot, japan, meltdown, robots, teleoperated robots
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US Radiation Monitoring Links
No endorsements, these are just links that I’ve found: Online Geiger Counter Nuclear Radiation Detector Map Radiation Network EPA network
Fukushima and Teleoperated Robots (Video)
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Tagged fukushima, meltdown, robotics, telebots, teleoperated robots
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Nuclear Expert: “Get a camera in there!”
Frank von Hippel, a genuine nuclear expert, talks with Rachel Maddow: He mentions that the problems are that ‘too much’ of the roof is intact to get hoses in, and they can’t see where to shoot the water until they … Continue reading
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Radiation hardening for telebots
I was asked whether teleoperated robots could function in a high-radiation environment. I found a link here, which indicates that microelectronics can survive thousands of rads before degradation. That would be many times a lethal dose for humans. The electronics … Continue reading
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Tagged control room, fukushima, meltdown, radiation hardening, teleoperated robot, teleoperated robots
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