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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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Nuclear Teleoperations isn’t a new idea
In 1963 came Mobot.
Fukushima: constructing containment buildings out of shipping containers
Containments for the damaged reactor buildings can be rapidly constructed out of intermodal shipping containers. Shown here are forty-foot units. Approximately 1500 are used to build the walls. At $5000 per unit, the walls can be constructed for $7,500,000 in … Continue reading
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Fukushima: How to Cool the Fuel Rods
I read this morning that the expended fuel rods at Fukushima are stored in a pool above the reactor core. If the reactor has a meltdown, the pool is damaged and will leak, exposing the fuel rods to air, which … Continue reading
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International Pi(e) Day
Yes, there is an International Pi Day, according to wikipedia and even the United States Congress. And Google too — so that makes it official. In case you didn’t bother to check the link and couldn’t guess, the reason this … Continue reading
Minor DIY surgery on a TV set
My nephew bought a TV at Goodwill for just fifteen dollars the other day, so that he and his friend can play XBox games side by side with their own screens in my apartment. I’m such a pushover that I … Continue reading
How to provide pump power at Fukushima
Normally, I wouldn’t think myself qualified to offer insight on how to cool a reactor plant in meltdown, but then I read this in the “New York Times: Christopher D. Wilson, a reactor operator and later a manager at Exelon’s … Continue reading
Neighborhood Power Plants: An Alternative to Catastrophe and Collapse
Today was a gloomy day here in the Seattle region. The sky was overcast and it was nonstop raining. I happened to be driving through downtown around noontime when I saw a sign which gave the solar flux: .23 kw. … Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, japan, meltdown, nuclear power, portable power generators, solar power
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Engineer Zero 