Robots inspect nuclear waste canisters for damage at San Onofre
A clunky robotic device resembling a tiny car – equipped with a 3-D camera – has been crawling up and down canisters loaded with nuclear waste at San Onofre’s concrete bunkers, trying to quantify the depth and breadth of scratches inflicted on their way into the vaults.
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Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative. Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.