Drones fly in to inspect waste tanks at Savannah River Site

November 27, 2024, 3:01PMNuclear News
The Flyability Elios 3 model drone for the SRS tank inspection program. (Photo: SRS)

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management will soon, for the first time, begin using drones to internally inspect radioactive liquid waste tanks at the department’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Inspections were previously done using magnetic wall-crawling robots.

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