Crafty cranes, or the feasibility of robots at ISABELLE [electronic resource].
Published
Upton, N.Y. : Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1978. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
As currently envisioned, ISABELLE will have to be shut down at regular intervals much shorter than the natural lifetime of the beams in order to allow the experimenters into the six experimental halls to make simple repairs or simple modifications to their apparatus. Much of this downtime and frustration could be avoided if there were a class of radiation workers who could withstand approx. 10/sup 5/ rads. Obviously such a class of workers would be robots. The feasibility of such devices is discussed.