{"id":220616,"date":"2025-08-21T12:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/lidar-scans-decommissioned-nuclear-reactors-at-hanford-for-safety"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:17:13","slug":"lidar-scans-decommissioned-nuclear-reactors-at-hanford-for-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/lidar-scans-decommissioned-nuclear-reactors-at-hanford-for-safety","title":{"rendered":"LiDAR scans decommissioned nuclear reactors at Hanford for safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lidar-scans-decommissioned-nuclear-reactors-at-hanford-for-safety.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US nuclear graveyard scanned with advanced LiDAR tech for safety, risk mapping.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The 3D imaging tool helped them come up with a detailed picture of the conditions of the safe storage enclosures for six cocooned reactors and identify potential issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese inspections are critical to ensuring the cocooned reactors continue to function as designed,\u201d said Tashina Jasso, acting director with the HFO\u2019s Site Stewardship Division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inspections are part of our commitment to reducing risk and preserving infrastructure for long-term management and safe disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US nuclear graveyard scanned with advanced LiDAR tech for safety, risk mapping. The 3D imaging tool helped them come up with a detailed picture of the conditions of the safe storage enclosures for six cocooned reactors and identify potential issues. \u201cThese inspections are critical to ensuring the cocooned reactors continue to function as designed,\u201d said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}