Meeting the growing needs of the nuclear back-end requires the availability of a dedicated workforce as well as the optimisation of the tasks and schedules due to competing projects and sites. The adoption of robotics and remote systems (RRS) could be a significant support by minimising the human exposure and risks associated with back-end activities, but also by allowing new applications which could improve back-end operations. 

In order to support this adoption, the Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back-end (EGRRS) is organising a series of webinars to share lessons learnt and latest developments with a wider audience. 

The fifth webinar in the series will feature the following presentations:

1. Decontamination technologies for decommissioning and extreme applications 
   Thomas Xu - FEVDI
2. ROBBE - Autonomous robot operated water jet blasting of assemblies during dismantling of nuclear power plants 
   Pedro Santos - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
3. EcoLAS - Robotic solution for laser decontamination of metallic radioactive waste 
   Vincent Delage - Meliad

_{Photo credits: ROBBE in decontamination chamber – courtesy of Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD}