I do often think though that with the current robots around one might
consider a lot more life out of systems that otherwise nobody could get in
to fix.
Brian

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On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:57:56 +0000, Mike Tomlinson
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Doesn't say whether this extension has been approved by the Nuclear
Inspections Inspectorate (or whatever they're called today), presumably
so or they wouldn't have made the announcement.

The reactors a

Heysham 1 (5 yrs)
Heysham 2 (7 yrs)
Hartlerpool (5 yrs)
Torness (7 yrs)

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...tends-life-of-
four-nuclear-reactors-hinkley-point-decision

Also all over the BBC.
Heysham 1 started generating in 1983, as did Hartlepool, Heysham 2 in
1984. Torness in 1988. That means they will have given 40 - 50 years
continuous service, with no major interruptions other than routine
service. Good value.

Aren't the Heyshams the ones that had cracking in the boiler spine?

Yes. This, from the wiki on Heysham nuclear power station:

"In 2013 a defect was found by a regular inspection in one of the
eight pod boilers of unit 1. The reactor resumed operation at a lower
output level with the defective pod boiler disabled, until June 2014
when more detailed inspections confirmed a crack in the boiler spine.
As a precaution, unit 2 and the sister Hartlepool nuclear power
station were also shut down for inspection.[4][5]

All units have since returned to full power after successful
inspections on the three other reactors revealed no other defects.
Heysham 1 unit 1 will operate on six out of the eight boilers until a
detailed repair strategy has been developed."

I expect Harry will be along soon to tell us that they're all being
kept in service because no-one knows what to do with the waste!

Hang on, he just has, as I type! Harry, you are so predictable!

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On 16/02/16 15:44, Brian Gaff wrote:
I do often think though that with the current robots around one might
consider a lot more life out of systems that otherwise nobody could get
in to fix.
Brian


I'm not sure the electronics are that much more radiation-proof than
flesh and blood.

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On 16/02/16 17:17, Another Dave wrote:
On 16/02/16 15:44, Brian Gaff wrote:
I do often think though that with the current robots around one might
consider a lot more life out of systems that otherwise nobody could get
in to fix.
Brian


I'm not sure the electronics are that much more radiation-proof than
flesh and blood.

Of course they can be made to be. Just shield them in lead.

Works for humans too.


Did you know that cosmic rays are likely with modern RAM to corrupt one
memory cell every few hours?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...fect-a-program

Another Dave


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En el artículo , Another Dave
escribió:

I'm not sure the electronics are that much more radiation-proof than
flesh and blood.

They're using them in Fukushima to assist with the clean-up. A couple
of special radiation-hardened models were built by Hitachi to go into
the reactor core. The first one failed due to excessive radiation, and
I think subsequent ones have worked for at least a while.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r...-robots/heres-
why-we-should-be-using-modular-robots-to-explore-fukushima

https://www.rt.com/news/249461-tepco...kushima-video/

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fukushima-r...fter-entering-
japans-radioactive-reactor-1496126

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En el artículo , Mike Tomlinson
escribió:

They're using them in Fukushima to assist with the clean-up. A couple
of special radiation-hardened models were built by Hitachi t

Another link. This is recent (Jan 2016), and shows the Toshiba robot.
There's a link to a video in the article.

http://fukushimaupdate.com/japan-unv...trol-robot-to-
dismantle-fukushima-plant/

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On 16/02/16 15:44, Brian Gaff wrote:
I do often think though that with the current robots around one might
consider a lot more life out of systems that otherwise nobody could get
in to fix.
Brian

Every year there a couple of announcements about enhanced robots capable
of crawling around and fixing stuff in high radiation environments.


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