Recently, the ITER Remote Handling workshop took place, and GTD was very actively involved in it through the presence of Alex Cantos and Martiño Saco. Our team of ‘Nuclear Robotics’ experts (see photo below) is located in GTD Madrid (Barajas). The team includes three women and three men who are all young, motivated and very proud of the excellent work they’re doing for the international ITER project. At ITER/FUSION 4 ENERGY, this working framework has been named GENROBOT. The prospects following this project are extremely interesting since the technologies that are developed within this nuclear program are totally reusable in any other project in the same sector, or even in other similar sectors, such as the space industry. Remote teleoperation through robotics will have an important role to play in the ITER Tokamak.When the reactor starts operating it will be impossible to make changes, carry out inspections or repair any of the components of the Tokamak in the radioactive areas, if it’s not done by remote handling. We congratulate this young team that, from the Barajas office, contributes to making us more internationally relevant.From left to right: Luis Ortega, Patricia Uriol, Martiño Saco, Nicole Pintos, Alejandro Cantos and Macarena Garañena More information
