The use and development of teleoperators for hostile environment applications at Savannah River Site

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5155047

Fogle, R F

The Robotics Development Group (RDG) of the Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) has used a variety of teleoperated vehicles, arms, and support equipment in hostile environment applications at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS). WSRC primarily uses teleoperated hardware to eliminate or significantly reduce personnel exposure in radioactive activities or other hazardous tasks. Teleoperators at SRS handle radioactive material, decontaminate areas contaminated with radioactive isotopes, perform radiological surveys, and provide video surveillance in radiologically controlled areas (RCAs). Proposed future applications of teleoperators include decontamination, filter inspection, contaminated soil removal and dropped reactor target assembly retrieval. This paper discusses past, present, and future applications and current development work on several mobile teleoperators and remote-controlled devices at SRS. 11 refs.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 5155047
• Report Number(s): WSRC-MS-91-365; CONF-920540--17; ON: DE92015890
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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