I believe the levels of radiation are several orders of magnitude different. I don’t think you can even use a digital camera for a robot near these open reactors as the signal is completely swamped by the radiation, while in space you would just have a couple of inaccurate pixels at any point in time.
Camera issues are a whole nother issue, but other then tech debt, NASA likes to use older computers because the traces on the chips are bigger and less likely to have their bits flipped. A friend of mine programs for satellites and his systems use some sort of PowerPC chip.
Have NASA design them. They already do radiation hardening for outer space.
I believe the levels of radiation are several orders of magnitude different. I don’t think you can even use a digital camera for a robot near these open reactors as the signal is completely swamped by the radiation, while in space you would just have a couple of inaccurate pixels at any point in time.
Camera issues are a whole nother issue, but other then tech debt, NASA likes to use older computers because the traces on the chips are bigger and less likely to have their bits flipped. A friend of mine programs for satellites and his systems use some sort of PowerPC chip.