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A robotic system for hazardous work on the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor. It is a two-armed machine - which also has ten eyes and four ears. The 75 tonne robot takes the form of a traversing carriage with two 16 metre arms. Operators in a remote control room use binocular cameras on each arm to take apart the highly radioactive internal structures of the 254 MWe reactor. The arms will be able to cut up and reduce the size of reactor components using diamond wire, hydraulic shears, oxy/propane and plasma cutting. Operators will also be able to listen in on the action using two microphones on each of the arms.

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Ian Seed
Author: Ian Seed
Created: 2011-11-07 Modified: 2020-07-03
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