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Affordable Cleanup? Opportunities for Cost Reduction in the Decontamination and Decommissioning of the Nation's Uranium Enrichment Facilities (1996) / Chapter Skim
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F: AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS
Pages 233-235

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... Opportunities for cost savings and safety improvements through use of well-planned automation and robotics have been identified only after comparison to manual operational experience or when manual operations are not possible because of unsafe or inaccessible conditions. Emphasis has been placed on the use of commercially available equipment requiring minimal applications development.
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... DOE PROGRAMS The Robotics Technology Development Program of the DOE Office of Technology Development in the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management is performing applied research and development for practical robotics for a variety of applications in DOE site cleanup projects and for work directly related to the D&D of GDPs (DOE, 1994)
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... 1994. Robotics Technology Development Program.
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