Remote Operation and Maintenance Demonstration Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5472888

Burgess, T W

The Remote Operation and Maintenance Demonstration (ROMD) Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been developed by the Consolidated Fuel Reprocessing Program to demonstrate remote handling concepts on advanced nuclear fuel reprocessing equipment and for other programs of national interest. The ROMD facility is a large-volume high-bay area that encloses a complete, technologically advanced remote maintenance system and full-scale development reprocessing equipment. The maintenance system consists of a full complement of teleoperated manipulators, manipulator transport systems, and overhead hoists that provide the capability of performing a large variety of remote handling tasks. This system has been used to demonstrate remote manipulation techniques for the US Department of Energy (DOE), the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuels Development Corporation of Japan, the US Navy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Extensive tests of manipulative systems and remote maintainability of process equipment have been performed. This paper describes the ROMD facility and key remote maintenance equipment and presents a summary of major experimental activities. 7 refs., 6 figs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5472888
• Report Number(s): CONF-860905-6; ON: DE86012621
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

050800* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Spent Fuels Reprocessing
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
CONSOLIDATED FUEL REPROCESSING PROGRAM
CONTROL
COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS
EQUIPMENT
FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
MAINTENANCE
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
OPERATION
REMOTE CONTROL
REMOTE HANDLING
REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS