MURENE is an innovative remote-controlled equipment for clean-up and dismantling sites. Until now, the operations to recover old bitumen drums stored in the casemates of the CEA's Marcoule liquid effluent treatment station were carried out using trolleys fitted for a nuclear environment called "rascasses". These "rascasses" have many disadvantages: the presence of an obligatory driver, heavy equipment (19 t), a cart that is difficult to manoeuvre, with restricted visibility and which limits production time to 1.5 hours per day.
The MURENE robot, together with the GOBIE robot, meets a need to improve these operations and make them more efficient and safer. It integrates an automatic driving mode for the transfer of cans, which uses the virtual representation of the environment via collision radars.
The use of new types of machines allows the transition from a "piloted" mode to a "teleoperated" mode, with a notable improvement in safety during the implementation of A&D sites.