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Radiation-Hardened Robotics Simulator

Interactive nuclear-decommissioning robotics simulator: watch a standard robot and a radiation-hardened robot accumulate Total Ionizing Dose in a live radiation field, with a real-time dose chart showing when standard electronics fail versus the far higher tolerance of rad-hard designs.

Robotics & Kinematics3DModerate60 FPS
radiation-hardened-robotics-simulator ↗ Open standalone

Robots sent into nuclear reactor buildings — for inspection, decontamination or decommissioning work like at Fukushima Daiichi and Chernobyl — face a hazard invisible to the eye: ionizing radiation slowly destroys ordinary electronics. This simulator places a standard robot and a radiation-hardened robot side by side in the same radiation field and accumulates Total Ionizing Dose (TID) on each in real time. Watch the standard unit's electronics degrade and fail first while the rad-hardened design — built with thicker gate oxide, triple modular redundancy and radiation-tolerant substrates — keeps working far longer under identical conditions. Adjust the field intensity and track both robots' dose against their failure thresholds on the live chart.

⚙ Under the hood

Send a standard robot and a radiation-hardened robot into the same radiation field and watch Total Ionizing Dose accumulate on each in real time. See standard electronics fail first while rad-hard design — thicker gate oxide, triple modular redundancy, radiation-tolerant substrates — keeps working far longer, the exact constraint behind Fukushima and Chernobyl decommissioning robots.

roboticsnuclearradiationreliabilityThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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