Many of these approaches for cleaning up nuclear waste from legacy nuclear sites may also be useful for fusion reactors. I talked with one of the people working

Many of these approaches for cleaning up nuclear waste from legacy nuclear sites may also be useful for fusion reactors. I talked with one of the people working on building robots for Sellafield and one of their other projects was building a robot to refurbish parts for ITER. Nuclear fusion reactors like ITER will need to go down periodically for maintenance. The amount of time the reactor spends offline is lost money, so maintenance needs to be done as fast as possible. So one of the robots they were working on would go into a pipe, cut it into pieces, put in a new pipe and reweld it within 30 seconds. Another interesting challenge for robots in ITER is that some may be exposed to such high levels of radiation that the: "designers can forget all the advances in electronics we have witnessed since the 1960s: only a few discrete transistors can be employed, with integrated circuits being forbidden for their sensitivity to radiation."[0] [0]https://mappingignorance.org/2014/01/29/iter-engineering-challenges-ofputting-the-sun-into-a-box-part-3/ https://mappingignorance.org/2014/01/29/iter-engineering-cha...