New Web-site technologies allow us to create virtual tours of nuclear facilities. In the future this will allow people who are interested in the Asia Pacific nuclear industry to visualize facilities conveniently from their computer monitor over the Internet.

Developed by iPIX in the U.S., virtual tour software stitches together two images from a wide-angle digital camera
to provide 360 degree photographs of installations.  Imbedded "hot spots" allow the viewer to change position and call up supplementary information in selected areas, in effect permitting the building of three-dimensional brochures to demonstrate the physical layout of a facility.

In order to take a Virtual Tour, you will need to download the iPIX plug-in. It is available at the tour link below. Please be aware that this file is fairly large, about 900 KB. If you have a slow connection this may not be convenient. We are offering this technology now in the hopes that most of our viewers are connecting at speeds higher than 10 KB/sec. If you encounter long download times, contact us and we may be able to send the files to you on a CD.

When you click on the tour below you will leave this web-site - so please Bookmark us now! Please try this tour and contact us with your impressions or suggestions. We will appreciate learning how we can improve this new feature.

VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE "WIPP" NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the world’s only certified, operating geologic repository for disposal of nuclear materials.  The facility offers a unique opportunity for developing techniques for nuclear transparency in the back end of the nuclear cycle. The site is near Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.A. It has been accepting nuclear waste shipments since March 1999.

Other transparency technologies are available directly through the WIPP transparency web-site, including near-real time images from the storage tunnels, 650 meters below the surface.