Magnox Reactor Inspection Vehicle
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| Magnox reactor inspection vehicle | |
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| Manufacturer | Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories |
| Production years | 1978 |
| Production location | (unknown) |
Nuclear power set many new engineering challenges. This tracked robot vehicle could carry a camera into areas of new nuclear reactors that humans could not safely enter.
[edit] How it works
This little robot is like a remote controlled toy car, but it also has a camera attached to it.
The signals telling it where to go, and the feed from the camera, flow along a large cable instead of through the air as radio waves. This allowed people to see inside the dangerous environment of a nuclear reactor where they could not go themselves.
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[edit] In the Science Museum
The Museum acquired this object in 1982. Inv. No: 1982-1377
This object is currently on display in the Dan Dare & the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum, London.