What's New in 2015

2015

Dec. 16

【R&D TOPICS】Development of decontamination equipment for upper floors of the reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Dec.16, 2015)

Dec. 14

Participation in the International Robot Exhibition 2015 —Exhibition of Decommissioning Robots and Lecture by IRID Director Kiyoshi Oikawa—(Dec. 2-5, 2015)

Dec. 10

Lecture Delivered by Mr. Kiichi Suganuma, Executive Director of IRID at the Fifth World Engineering Conference and Convention (Dec.1, 2015)

Dec. 3

Visiting Lecture at Koriyama City Tomita Junior High School (Nov. 25, 2015)

Nov. 24

Participation in Science Agora 2015 (Nov. 14-15, 2015)-Introduction of Robots for Nuclear Decommissioning and Announcement of IRID’s R&D Achievements-

Nov. 12

Exhibition at an IRID booth at the Robot Festa Fukushima 2015 (Nov. 3, 2015)

Nov. 10

Lecture by Tetsuo Kotoku, IRID Deputy General Manager, R&D Strategy Planning Department at 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015) (Oct. 2, 2015)

Oct. 14

【R&D TOPICS】[Videos] Operations Training for Investigation inside the Primary Containment Vessel (PCV) at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) Unit 2 and Equipment for Preliminary Investigation inside the Pedestal and Deposit Removal Equipment (Oct. 14, 2015)

Oct. 9

Report on IRID’s R&D Achievements at 2015 Fall Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (Sept. 11, 2015)

Sep. 10

【R&D TOPICS】Development and Utilization of Dry Ice Blast Decontamination Equipment for High Places (Sept. 8, 2015)

Sep. 9

The 33-rd Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan (Sept. 3-5, 2015)

Jul. 29

Lecture by IRID President Hirofumi Kenda at RADIEX2015 (Jul. 15-17, 2015)

Jul. 29

The 12th Scientific Lecture Meeting of the Japan Society of Maintenology (Jul. 13 -15, 2015)

Jul. 23

IRID Symposium 2015 in Fukushima - Create a Path to Decommissioning “Approaching Molten Fuel Debris” -

Jun. 30

IRID member Toshiba has released the video of A Robot Developed to Investigate PCV Interiors of Fukushima Daiichi Unit No.2 on YouTube.

May. 28

【R&D TOPICS】Training on use of ‘TEMBO’ equipment to remove shielding blocks and iron plates now underway (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)

May. 18

An unprecedented challenge Robots obtain crucial information on conditions inside the Fukushima Reactor (May 18, 2015)

May. 12

Lectures by IRID Director Kiyoshi Oikawa and Deputy Manager Yasuaki Miyamoto at the German-Japanese Symposium on Technological and Educational Resources for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities (April 21, 2015)

Apr. 27

Lecture by Takashi Sato, General Manager of IRID R&D Management Department [2nd Japan-U.S. Decommissioning and Remediation Fukushima Recovery Forum] (Apr. 9, 2015)

Apr. 23

Survey Device (Shape-changing Robot) Deployed to Inspect Interior of Primary Containment Vessel (PCV)  (April 20, 2015)

Apr. 9

The Final Report of the Conceptual Study of Innovative Approach for Fuel Debris Retrieval and Feasibility Study of Essential Technologies [Released on April 9]

Apr. 2

The 4th Technology Advisory Committee Meeting (Mar. 24, 2015)

Apr. 2

IRID member Toshiba has released the video of the measurement device using muon scattering method and the developer interview on YouTube.

Mar. 25

Lecture by Kazuhito Yokoi, General Manager of the IRID Development Planning Office [The 4th University-Industry Cooperation Forum at University of Aizu] (Mar. 2, 2015)

Feb. 26

German-Japanese Symposium on “Technological and Educational Resources for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities”

Feb. 25

The Progress Report of the Conceptual Study of Innovative Approach for Fuel Debris Retrieval and Feasibility Study of Essential Technologies [Released on February 24]

Feb. 24

Lecture by IRID Executive Director Kiichi Suganuma at the Chubu Atomic Industrial Conference (Feb. 13, 2015)

Feb. 12

【R&D TOPICS】Commencement of Reactor Interior Survey Using ‘Muon Transmission Method’

Feb. 6

Robot development of IRID is available on TEPCO’s Website.

Jan. 20

【R&D TOPICS】Muon measuring instrument production for ‘muon transmission method’ and its review by international experts.