U.S. uses inspection robots to check the underground pipelines of nuclear power plants

The United States successfully used Universal Hitachi's inspection robots to conduct inspections of underground pipelines in nuclear power plants. Prior to this, such tests usually involved excavation work.

Because the direct detection of underground pipelines requires excavation of pipelines, it is time consuming and costly. Therefore, inspectors of nuclear power plants usually monitor indirectly buried pipelines, for example, introduce current into pipelines to confirm whether there are corrosion areas in pipelines, or use them. Ultrasound technology to find cracks in the pipeline.

General Electric Hitachi (GEH) announced that its supersonic, self-propelled, articulated detection robot has been used for structural integrity testing of an underground pipeline in South Texas. This type of robot has previously been used for pipe testing in the oil and gas industry, but it is the first time for pipeline testing in nuclear power plants.

The 1.8-meter-long inspection robot used a single point of access method to inspect a section of underground aluminum-copper alloy water pipes with a length of 9 meters and a diameter of 15 centimeters. The 3m pipe in the first stage was tested as a vertical pipe. After the robot was bent 90 degrees, the horizontal pipe with a length of 6m was detected. The entire detection process was less than 8 hours. The pipeline inspection through other methods required time-consuming excavation work. And it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.


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