Robot worms its way in nuclear clean-up
A ROBOTIC "worm" is providing information from underground to experts cleaning up the Dounreay nuclear plant.
The robot crawled along a pipeline used to discharge radioactive effluent from the Caithness site between 1957 and 1992. The 100,000 machine sent back video and radiation readings from 45 metres underground.
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