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Two assistant professors of Pabna University of Science and Technology have allegedly plagiarised from a book in their joint paper published in an academic journal last month. Editors of the book requested the University Grants Commission (UGC) and Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) recently to take action against the teachers. Assistant professors Awal Kabir of
Long arm robotics system for nuclear decommissioning - credit: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (“UKAEA”) has awarded Veolia Nuclear Solutions (UK) and Wälischmiller Engineering GmbH separate contracts totalling £3 million to supply robotic manipulator arms to its RACE research facility.
The £3M contract stems from the £12M UK-Japanese robotics deal for fusion energy and nuclear decommissioning research, called “LongOps”, announced in January this year.
LongOps will support the delivery of faster and safer decommissioning at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (“TEPCO”) Fukushima Dai-ichi site in Japan and at Sellafield in the UK.
Veolia Nuclear Solutions (UK) and Wälischmiller Engineering GmbH will each provide a twin-arm haptic manipulator – a form of kinaesthetic communications technology, complete with electrical and control systems, to deliver key aspects of the LongOps project. The manipulators will also be used by
01/22/2021 2 Minutes Read
Britain and Japan have signed a research and technology deployment collaboration to develop new robotics and automation techniques for nuclear decommissioning and fusion energy production in both Japan and the UK. The UK-Japan alliance is called LongOps, a robotics project to support the delivery of faster and safer decommissioning at TEPCO’s Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors in Japan and at Sellafield in the UK, using long-reach robotic arms. UKAEA’s Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE) facility will lead the project, design strategy, and deliver new robotic capabilities with global potential.
The decommissioning of legacy nuclear facilities and fusion facilities are complex large-scale projects that are time-intensive to accomplish safely. The UK-Japan alliance will help leverage Robotics and Digital Twin technologies in carrying them out efficiently with no risk to human health. A major feature of th