{"id":13251,"date":"2018-03-17T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/nuclear-industry-putting-trust-in-uas\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T02:44:00","slug":"nuclear-industry-putting-trust-in-uas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=13251","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Industry Putting Trust in UAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt When an engineer first suggested using a drone to inspect two concrete pressurized water reactor (PWR) containment domes at American Electric Power\u2019s Cook Nuclear Plant, David Aubrey, who oversees these inspections, was hesitant to trust such a new technology with such a critical task. The engineering program manager didn\u2019t know much about unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at the time, except for what he\u2019d seen in the news. But after doing more research and learning about the cost savings and safety improveme&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt When an engineer first suggested using a drone to inspect two concrete pressurized water reactor (PWR) containment domes at American Electric Power\u2019s Cook Nuclear Plant, David Aubrey, who oversees these inspections, was hesitant to trust such a new technology with such a critical task. The engineering program manager didn\u2019t know much about unmanned aircraft systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}