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It means, that the robots have to be very "custom" build ones. With the intelligent parts beeing deposited outside of the dangerous area, communicating with the
by Pica_soO 10y ago
It means, that the robots have to be very "custom" build ones. With the intelligent parts beeing deposited outside of the dangerous area, communicating with the muscle via e.g. fibreoptics.
The robot consists ideally of some die-hard sensors positioned as far away as possible and as close as necessary - which are retractable mechanically in case of software failure by left behind elements. Then there is the actual tooling, which is basically just a remote controlled shell. A complicated setup, to say the least.
Imagine a Anemone with some little remote camera fishes on a tentacle, controlling a robotic crab on the longest tentacle of them all.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> the intelligent parts beeing [sic] deposited outside of the dangerous area Is there a material that is transparent at optical frequencies but opaque at higher energies?
- baq 10y agoGlass, but nothing stops neutrons.
- rdtsc 10y agoYou can stop them by slowing them down. Usually you'd use ellastic collisions with light atoms like hydrogen. Water works which is what reactors use. For shipping polyethylene is often used. Then some materials simply have a higher cross section for absorbing the slow ones. Had to look this up I saw boron and cadmium. (Married to person who used to ship Californium-252)
- throwanem 10y agoIdeally you'd want it to be gamma-transparent as well; otherwise, those gamma photons which hit it are going to deposit their energy into it. This is how glass viewing windows in nuclear materials processing facilities, for example, gradually cloud and embrittle over time, and have to be replaced. I'm not sure how well a relatively thin optical fiber would stand up, especially under the kind of bombardment we're talking about here.