Groupe INTRA is a French emergency response organization created by the French
CEA, and the French nuclear companies
Areva
Areva S.A. is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power headquartered in Courbevoie, France. Before its 2016 corporate restructuring, Areva was majority-owned by the French state through the French Alternative Energies and Atom ...
and
EDF EDF may refer to:
Organisations
* Eclaireurs de France, a French Scouting association
* Education for Development Foundation, a Thai charity
* Électricité de France, a French energy company
** EDF Energy, their British subsidiary
** EDF Luminus, ...
. It maintains a number of emergency intervention teams equipped with high-power
radiation-hardened teleoperated
Teleoperation (or remote operation) indicates operation of a system or machine at a distance. It is similar in meaning to the phrase "remote control" but is usually encountered in research, academia and technology. It is most commonly associat ...
mobile robots for intervention in
nuclear accidents. INTRA is an acronym for "INTervention Robotique sur Accident", ''robotic intervention in accident''.
As of March 2011, Groupe INTRA is shipping equipment to Japan to help with the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
References
External links
* (English)
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Nuclear safety and security
Robotics organizations
Nuclear technology in France
Robots of France