Titania can supply a nuclear plant with borated water for 30 days during an emergency situation. In 2011, Fukushima only lasted 18 hours.

GD Energy Services (DGES), which was previously known as Grupo Dominguis, focuses its efforts on improving safety at nuclear plants. The key driver behind its innovation is Titania a spinoff from the company and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), which has recently come up with two new solutions for nuclear facilities called Demos Plus and Borilain.

In nuclear plants, the highest levels of radiation often accumulate in the reactor cavities and fuel pools. The problem is that when fuel is moved high radiation particles are always left behind in the water. The company confronted this problem by developing the Demos robot, which was very successful. However, one important part of the puzzle still needed to be addressed: cleaning the vertical walls of these pools. That’s why the Demos Plus project was born.

Demos Plus is a robot that can move both vertically and horizontally, in order to collect the radioactive particles which are deposited on the walls and floor of a reactor pool. Titania’s robotic unit has achieved record speeds and is capable of moving up to eight meters per minute; this helps to reduce reaction times during critical periods. In order to increase the equipment’s power the company improved upon a previous version by adding an additional motor. It also added a function that lets all of the cleaning brushes turn in the same direction, as well as a flotation system to offset the robot’s weight, and two lateral turbines that let the robot move about freely inside of a cavity.

The company created the Borilain project for the French electric utility EdF (Electricité de France), which asked a number of technology companies to design and manufacture equipment that would be capable of providing large quantities of borated water. Titania came up with a system that can function uninterrupted and automatically for 30 days, which would be important factors to consider in the case of a nuclear accident.