Two Saab Seaeye Tiger robotic vehicles are to work in the radioactive ponds at the Sellafield nuclear site in the north-west of England. Saab Seaeye, an underwater e-robotics company, said on 2 October the vehicles’ “proven thruster reliability is vitally important in a highly corrosive environment where maintenance intervention is hazardous to humans”. Sellafield Ltd intends that the Tigers, which have a thruster working life of 10,000 hours, to work continuously for six months at a time between scheduled maintenance periods.
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