It can operate in hazardous environments including areas of high radiation, flammable gasses, and corrosive chemicals. It also produces an abundance of data, providing more information of stability of tanks, as well as their content. It offers mobility, flexibility, and accuracy, to accomplish a wide range of tasks. From sampling waste to measuring it. It provides its tasks inside reducing danger to workers from contaminates. .
The system combines data in "real time" workers sit in a remote command station. The arm has a robotic manipulator arm, a vertical positioning mast, and a deployment vehicle. The arm can reach around objects and place N- defectors, the working tools of the robotic arms. In the tank the arm can reach 13.5 feet (4 meters) in all directions. It can lift 75 pounds (34 Kilograms). A modified version of the arm has been developed for the Oak Ridge National Laboratories. .
Tanks are specially made for each. (Hanford, Washington. Boise, Idaho. Oak Ridge, Tennessee.). Each tank has a decontaminating spray, using high pressured water. Operators of the tank can view the arm as it moves using special 3-D goggles and cameras. This helps examination leading to final tank closure. The LDUA will help the nuclear industry as well as the safety of man concerning nuclear waste. The Light Duty Utility Arm helps to reduce nuclear waste, however in a world, which prides its self in how much waste it, can create we find many more problems arise.
The ozone hole over the South Pole during September and October 1989 surprised scientists, who had predicted a mild year for ozone destruction. Instead, this year has been as bad as any previously recorded, matching 1987, which was the worst on record. In the region 10 to 11 miles above the.
Earth, ozone depletion this year is almost 100%. Throughout the entire "hole," the loss averages 50% this year, just as it did in 1987. The extreme losses in 1987 prompted scientists to argue then that it was an unusual occurrence because their theories had not predicted it.