Drain Line Characterization Robot

Picture of Drain Line Robot encountering an obstruction

The Drain Line Characterization Robot is a tracked robotic vehicle with onboard video and radiation monitoring instrumentation. The robot was deployed to safely and economically inspect, characterize, and collect samples from 800 feet of subterranean piping in the Hanford Site's U-221 Building.

Fact Sheet (pdf 270kb)
Cost/Performance Review (pdf 959kb)
Cost Savings/ROI Report (pdf 61kb)
Crawler for U Plant Drain Line Inspection Presentation (pdf 2.8MB)
Poster (pdf 55kb)
Movie clip (mpg 12.1MB)
Video clip (mov 2.04MB)

Project Contact: J. Alzheimer