Manufacturing Industry
U.S. SENDS ROBOT TO CHERNOBYL TO PREVENT NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS.
Industrial Environment, July, 1999
A significant step was taken recently to diminish the chance of another nuclear disaster at Chernobyl when the "Pioneer" robot team presented the Ukrainians with a robot powered by SGI(NYSE:SGI). According to the leaders of this robotics "dream team" composed of U.S. government, academic and industry organizations, SGI systems enable the machine's most advanced features -- its vision and 3D mapping systems -- key to analyzing and ultimately repairing the decaying cement and steel sarcophagus covering the failed reactor.
The sarcophagus is a "greenhouse" of radioactive fuel, rubble and dust, according to Pioneer team leaders. Rain is seeping into the reactor and draining through radioactive material into ground water. If the sarcophagus is not repaired as...
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