When I worked in the nuclear industry, part of my work was to be the first to enter areas of potentially high radiation and contamination. The task of people like me was to survey and map out all areas of risk before any working party could enter. The working parties would be briefed and restrictions possibly placed on their task (eg. only allowed to be in the area for a certain amount of time). It was all about controlling exposure.
Training and experience were critical in getting the job done safely and we were usually the group on site accruing the highest doses (still within safe and legal limits). We used to call ourselves Canaries for obvious reasons. My total lifetime dose (after 32 years work) when I retired was just over 9 milliSieverts (mSv) and to put that into context, the annual legal dose limit in the UK for a classified worker is 20mSv. So, it can be seen that my dose control was fairly effective.
Interesting to see now that robots are starting to do the job. This is probably an area where AI could also come into its own.
Training and experience were critical in getting the job done safely and we were usually the group on site accruing the highest doses (still within safe and legal limits). We used to call ourselves Canaries for obvious reasons. My total lifetime dose (after 32 years work) when I retired was just over 9 milliSieverts (mSv) and to put that into context, the annual legal dose limit in the UK for a classified worker is 20mSv. So, it can be seen that my dose control was fairly effective.
Interesting to see now that robots are starting to do the job. This is probably an area where AI could also come into its own.
The robot dog taking on a nuclear reactor
'Spot' is helping engineers decommission a nuclear power reactor in the north of Scotland.
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