SEE response evaluation of robotic systems for the nuclear decommissionning

With many nuclear power plants coming to the end of their life, the nuclear Decontamination and Decommissioning process needs: cost effective, environmentally friendly and low human risk solutions. A steadily increasing research field is targeting many of the challenges around the D&D such as the inspection of areas that are subjected to ionizing radiation, as well the sorting of the nuclear waste. The experimental campaign that we propose in this request for beam time is aiming to evaluate the susceptibility of several electronic components to neutron radiation that will be used by a variety of robotic systems for the Decommissioning process. This study will allow to develop highly robust systems that will be able to carry out a large number of operations that currently expose humans to dangerous levels of radiation.