Robot WARS!

摘要

A new format of public-private innovation competition, for robotic civil nuclear power facility decommissioning, has emphasised integration and collaboration to overcome some of the endemic issues with nuclear-industry projects. One of the companies in an industrial consortia which competed in the event, Matt Mellor, MD of Createc, introduces the problem faced by the nuclear power industry:" My thoughts on nuclear, after quite a few years, is that it is stuck in the same loops. There is a design issue; people have missed the point of nuclear decommissioning. They have not learned the lesson; it doesn't matter how much time you spend designing, designs usually don't work in the way you intended. They are good designs for a different problem than what they have to solve."