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with interchangeable hands to suit the tools needed for any maintenance job of the fusion machine. "For example, if one of the tiles on the internal walls of the vessel needs changing, we can put on [a suitable] device to the end of the arm."
Since the robots are "quite expensive," a lot of training is needed before anyone can operate a MASCOT . Each MASCOT has two arms with grippers that can operate over 900 bespoke tools. The MASCOTs are deployed on the end of an articulated 12-meter boom, driven by a remote handing team from a control room fitted out with live camera feeds and VR screens for additional precision views.
Anyway, "you wouldn't really be able to get in there while it was running," clarifies D' Arras, who further explains that from the oil on your fingerprints, human presence would cause impurities in the plasma. One impact of contamination is that the reactor would cool down, and there would be some damage to the device. It would be the same issue even if humans went inside while the vessel was not running.
'Magnets prevent [the plasma] from coming into contact with walls and doing any damage to our machine'event, the U.K. team commonly received the question: If you're storing plasma at 150 million degrees Celsius, why doesn't your machine melt? D'Arras explains this is because the plasma never comes into contact with the vessel. The use of large magnetic fields confines the plasma.
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