polythene door, which you just pull like that and get out of the way and then ijust have to stop the momentum so it does not bounce too much. it is pretty heavy. then we go into the room, i have the geiger counter, but it is very safe, the room is not being used at the moment. you can hear there is no radiation anywhere. when you come in, there is this blue door here. that will open and a beam fires one and half billion times the normal number of neutrons at whatever you put in its path. what that does is recreate really high levels of radiation. let s see what is here. there will be a few blips because it is just background radiation. richard, i have one of our robots here that is carrying one of our processor boards. it has brought us a little present, hasn t it? for experiments. and what you can see here is a processor board that we have used for these experiments here which we have blasted with radiation and even though it looks perfectly fine, it does not work any more because the
so it does not bounce too much. it is pretty heavy. then we go into the room, i have the geiger counter, but it is very safe, the room is not being used at the moment. you can hear there is no radiation anywhere. when you come in, there is this blue door here. that will open and a beam fires one and half billion times the normal number of neutrons at whatever you put in its path. what that does is recreate really high levels of radiation. let s see what is here. there will be a few blips because it is just background radiation. richard, i have one of our robots here that is carrying one of our processor boards. it has brought us a little present, hasn t it? for experiments. and what you can see here is a processor board that we have used for these experiments here which we have blasted with radiation and even though it looks perfectly fine, it does not work any more because the circuits have been damaged by radiation. so at the moment, from nuclear decommissioning and processing of nuc
ijust have to stop the momentum so it does not bounce too much. it is pretty heavy. then we go into the room, i have the geiger counter, but it is very safe, the room is not being used at the moment. you can hear there is no radiation anywhere. when you come in, there is this blue door here. that will open and a beam fires one and half billion times the normal number of neutrons at whatever you put in its path. what that does is recreate really high levels of radiation. let s see what is here. there will be a few blips because it is just background radiation. richard, i have one of our robots here that is carrying one of our processor boards. it has brought us a little present, hasn t it? for experiments. and what you can see here is a processor board that we have used for these experiments here which we have blasted with radiation and even though it looks perfectly fine, it does not work any more because the circuits have been damaged by radiation.
to wear protective clothing and it takes about five to six hours to go and get these protective clothes on and they then have to travel to to the site where they undertake the work for another hour or so, undertake the work for two hours and afterwards they have to come back and get undressed. one of the benefits of using robotic solutions for that is that they do not have to go in these protective clothings, they are in the environment all the time. they can work 24 hours, seven days a week. here is the room in action. the white dots are radiation damaging the camera s electronics. building tougher electronics could also help protect our technology from naturally occurring cosmic radiation. it has become a modern problem, because electronics are getting smaller, it is getting faster, it is doing more, and that means that it is getting more interfered with by these particles. so things like driverless cars, electric vehicles, internet technologies, modern electronic systems, ai systems
for one of the largest and most complex environmental problems facing the country. the uk has nearly 5 million tonnes of nuclear waste to dispose of, but the job is so difficult and dangerous that it would take humans 120 years to complete. the scientists are designing a new generation of robots capable of working in some of the most radioactive places on the planet. here s our science correspondent richard westcott, there is enough nuclear waste in britain to fill wembley stadium. some of it has lain untouched in waterfor decades. if humans cleared it up, it would take 120 years. so scientists are developing a new generation of intelligent robots to help out. their circuit boards will need to withstand huge levels of radiation, so they are testing them in this special room. the entrance is this one and a half tonne steel and polythene door, which you just pull like that and get out of the way and then ijust have to stop the momentum