Re: New Belgian transport vehicle for solid nuclear medium and high-level wastes
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 12:32 pm
by nowty
Remember this from 1984 ?, I was doing my apprenticeship in the Nuclear industry at the time so I still have a slight fondness for the industry. I'm still bound by the Official Secrets Act for my time there.
And Chernobyl happened whilst I was in the industry too, it was quite a talking point at the time.
Re: New Belgian transport vehicle for solid nuclear medium and high-level wastes
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:00 pm
by Mr Gus
Less exposure to the rest of the worlds drivers on a train track, & limits where it will go in the remotest chance of hijacking for whatever purpose / cause highlighted, ...nice job for a tranche of armed police I expect!?
I hope its got a remote kill switch.
Re: New Belgian transport vehicle for solid nuclear medium and high-level wastes
I wonder how robust it will turn out to be if it has any electronics (at all) in it?
If I had been given the brief I would have designed it using only pneumatic or hydraulic actuators, sensors and controls, with any software or even basic electric stuff behind very heavy shielding...
I suppose anything could handle "high level waste" a thimble-full at a time - if it was in the middle of a 40-gall drum surrounded by lead!