Emergency response by robots to Fukushima-Daiichi accident: Summary and lessons learned

Industrial Robot

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 428-435

  Kawatsuma, Shinji ^a   Fukushima, Mineo ^a   Okada, Takashi ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emergency response; Industrial accidents; Japan; Nuclear energy industry; Robots

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ACCIDENTS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DISASTER RESPONSE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ENERGY INDUSTRY; HEAVY MACHINES; INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT; JAPAN; OPERATION SCHEMES; SOCIAL IMPLICATION;

INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ROBOTS;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

EID: 84865530060     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911211249715     Document Type: Article

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