Towards development of test methods for remote operations in the decommissioning process

Tanifuji, Yuta ; Shirasaki, Norihito; Mori, Fumiaki; Kawabata, Kuniaki   

This paper describes the efforts and the state of these efforts to develop test methods for evaluation of remotely operated robots. Because the radiation levels are high inside the reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi it is difficult for humans to work in them and remotely controlled robots must be used to do much of the decommissioning work. To select the robots for the different decommissioning tasks and to determine where the robots should be improved, a test method for analyzing and comparing robot performance is being developed. The approach and progress of the test method development are reported.