Towards enhancement of testing environment for remote control systems for nuclear disaster response and decommissioning

Kawabata, Kuniaki   

Naraha Center for Remote Control Technology Development, Japan Atomic Energy Agency was established in Naraha town, Fukushima, Japan in 2016. Testing facilities like mock-up stair, robot testing pool and a big motion capture arena were installed to provide a test field for contributing effective decommissioning of FDNPS. Important points of remote operations will change depending on the plans and the progress of the decommissioning process. Therefore, for enhancing such testing environment, we also attempt to develop some technologies to realize performance evaluation of the remote control systems and operator proficiency training. Currently we are developing standard test methods for nuclear emergency response and a robot simulator. In this presentation we would like to introduce our motivation, test facilities installed in Naraha Center and also current developments of support technologies for remote control systems for nuclear emergency response and decommissioning.