Ansaldo Nuclear Uses Bespoke Robot To Recover Caorso Radioactive Waste Drums :: The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency

Ansaldo Nuclear Uses Bespoke Robot To Recover Caorso Radioactive Waste Drums :: The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency: Ansaldo Nuclear has provided a bespoke robot to extract and recover 2,000 drums of radioactive waste from hard-to-access storage locations at the single-unit Caorso nuclear power plant in northern Italy.



The Genoa-based company said the exercise is part of one of the biggest and most complex decommissioning projects in the industry.



Ansaldo Nuclear designed, manufactured, installed and operated the robot. It was used to retrieve, verify, seal and pack the radioactive drums.