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I think they mean that we shouldn't have to send a guy inside the reactor to clean and reset it up every time you fire it. I don't really know why they listed t

• GTP 2y ago
  Seeing it from this perspective, maybe I now see it: the residual radioactivity inside the reactor may be strong enough to mess with the electronics of a robot you're sending inside. Maybe there are challenges in getting enough shielding while keeping the robot reasonably sized and maneuverable.
  • grues-dinner 2y ago
    A major challenge is getting the robot into the place you need it, along with other objects it needs like replacement parts, in between the other infrastructure like coils and cooling blankets. You mustn't damage the delicate reactor structures, you can't have rails and so on always in the reactor vessel, the vessel has to be vacuum tight, and most of all you must not allow the robot to fail and be unextractable, because humans can't go in an pull it out. ITER seems to have a project called the Agile Robot Transporter which you can see some renders of that demonstrate how fiddly this problem is.
    • pbronez 2y ago
      This presentation has some useful illustrations about the ART: https://indico.iter.org/event/45/contributions/1090/attachments/492/776/S4_Hery_The_Agile_Robot_Transporter_for_ITER_Diagnostic_Calibration-20221004.pdf https://indico.iter.org/event/45/contributions/1090/attachme...
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• amelius 2y ago
  Maybe because of security, and the entire thing needs to be airgapped.