Folding bulldozer in a test tank at the Hanford Site

Folding bulldozer in a test tank at the Hanford Site. This fits down a 12" pipe before deploying. Basically, an origami bulldozer. More here:

http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1391746.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• cool
• Hanford
• tech

[picklednick]

I cant really tell from this film, but how big is it please?

[jelakejr]

About six or seven feet long.

[woolowl]

:Put some guns on it!!

[brinsonka]

Any camera that goes in these tanks is contaminated. It doesn't need to be submerged in the waste. The radiation in the tank is sufficient to make the camera a new permanent fixture in the tank.

[PlebScrubber]

shame it needs that huge cable connected

I dont see why they cant put a camera on it behind a sealed glass to protect it from the waste, maybe a little windscreen wipper for it :)

[SuburbAllied]

@SuburbAllied You might be right, however, imagine that robot in a little bigger scale, then the weight and the wires proportions will be a very big issue and limiting the robots functions when eg. rescuing folks buried under the mass of a collapsed building. I think bigger and operational units will have a portable water tank and hydraulics just to limit the size of the wire.

[ironhydroxide2]

@SuburbAllied when you think about it...it isn't a wire....all hoses... 2 each for the motors and rams (hydraulic) and at least 1, maybe 2 for the high pressure spray.....In all actuality it is a SMALL bundle of hoses.

[SuburbAllied]

extremely thick wire to that tiny little thing.

[Nonamed22]

A very usefull piece of equipment.

This will really come in handy in many ways.

[unsivilized]

man i thought i was a nerd.... i heard people say WOW to many times in the background about a useless robot

[pillarman35]

my father inlaw helped make this. he designed the remote control system.

[s3ath]

if u have about four or five of these in a tank u will have the tanks cleaned in a matter of minutes just an idea

[CountryKidStyle]

what about water isnt it gonna be toxic 2

[yetimawl]

The waste in these tanks is not from the spent fuel for energy production.  It is from the Plutonium production process from the cold war era.

Nuke energy is the future of energy, not this unreliable wind and solar we are consistently fed.