Keir Groves, who was a Research Fellow from the University of Manchester and CARMA II development lead when the deployments took place, said: “In all our work with the nuclear industry, our ultimate aims are to remove people from harm and reduce the cost of government-funded nuclear decommissioning in the UK.
“Following several years of close collaboration with Sellafield Ltd and Ice Nine, a robotics solutions business, and with latter stage on-the-ground support in preparations for deployment from the RAICo team at their main facility in Whitehaven, CARMA II is now ready to be adopted by the industry and fulfil these aims.”.
Robot on a mission - to detect radioactive contamination in hazardous nuclear environments A robotic system that can detect radioactive contamination on the floors of large-scale legacy nuclear facilities has completed multiple deployments in a radioactive environment.
CARMA II has been deployed in two separate locations on the Sellafield site to validate its capability and determine its relevance as a potential “business-as-usual” tool that could be used in some of the most highly radioactive environments at Sellafield.
CARMA II’s abilities to bring efficiency to nuclear decommissioning, and remove humans from harmful radioactive environments, underscore much of what we seek to achieve at RAICo.
