On April 7th, a round table: ‘Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station – 30 years later’ organized by the Ukrainian nuclear community (UNC), State specialized enterprise of CNPS, National Nuclear Energy-generating company ‘Energoatom’ and NTUU ‘KPI’ took place in the Academic Board Hall.
This year on 18 February, a group of students and employees of KPI visited places directly connected with the greatest manmade disaster of the -the accident at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
One of the winners of the fourth festival of innovative projects "Sikorsky Challenge 2015" was the development of FEL scientists - "RadScout mk.3, robot to survey radiation contaminated waters," which received a grant from the Kuchma "Ukraine" in 12 thousand USD.
On 26 of April 2016 will be 30 years tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (CNPP).
The dark day of Chernobyl tragedy in 1986 goes farther and farther in history. Participants of those events are getting less and less and what is more the state isn’t enough concerned about them.
The disaster at Chernobyl demonstrated the need to create robotic systems, capable of working in dangerous for life and health situations. The development of such systems since 1996 actively carried out in the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of mechanics problems (IDRI MP) "Rhythm" of FAX.
