Underwater laser cutting technology for nuclear power plant dismantling has been developed domestically. The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) announced on the 30th that the research ...

Performing industrial or engineering tasks under water is especially personnel- and time-intensive. Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) is therefore working on developing a laser-based, automated process for ...

A South Korean research team has developed a novel underwater laser-cutting technique that can assist in the safe dismantling of nuclear reactors. The technology developed by Dr. In-Deok Park and his ...

As the need for technologies to cut and dismantle reactors and internal structures increases due to the end of the operational lifespan of nuclear power plants, an innovative laser cutting technology ...

KIMM breakthrough minimizes contaminants while cutting thick steel at 10-meter depths. The team led by Principal Researcher Park In-deok of the Laser Technology Commercialization Lab at the Busan ...

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials has developed a virtual remote dismantling system for use in teaching the use of lasers and plasma to cut underwater reactor vessel internals during the ...

When Rob Buckingham and Paul Hilton met at a conference in 2010 they hatched an idea straight from the plot of a sci-fi movie: robotic snakes, armed with fiber-lasers, to wind through disused nuclear ...