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Did you even look at the link? Lol, they are selling specifically radiation hardened cameras for nuclear power plant use. I’m no nuclear engineer so I can’t com

• blix 2y ago
  Do you really think the engineers building a robot to go into Fukishima have never once looked at the first handful of google results for "radiation hardened camera"?
  • Retric 2y ago
    A more generous reading of that comment would be that it’s other things not the camera’s that are causing the problem. A CCD image sensor that’s lost 20% of its pixels could still be providing useful information, especially if you’re just trying to get the robot out. Other systems may inherently have issues long before that point.
• jcrawfordor 2y ago
  Eh, I did some work with a team building a robot for maintenance inspections on an accelerator. Their client had come to the conclusion that the cost-benefit on radiation hardened cameras was questionable, and advised them to select inexpensive off-the-shelf cameras that could be regularly replaced in a cost effective way. Radiation hardening is tricky, there are tradeoffs involved and lots of reasons you might choose different points on the spectrum from "disposable robot" to "robot expected to have a long service life in a radiation environment."
  • HPsquared 2y ago
    I reckon a shutdown accelerator has orders of magnitude less radiation than a lump of Fukushima corium.