Groupe INTRA is a French emergency response organization created by the French CEA

Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique

The Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives or CEA, is a French “public establishment related to industrial and commercial activities” whose mission is to develop all applications of nuclear power, both civilian and military...

, and the French nuclear companies Areva

Areva

AREVA is a French public multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in the Tour Areva in Courbevoie, Paris. AREVA is mainly known for nuclear power; it also has interests in other energy projects. It was created on 3 September 2001, by the merger of Framatome , Cogema and...

 and EDF

Électricité de France

Électricité de France S.A. is the second largest French utility company. Headquartered in Paris, France, with €65.2 billion in revenues in 2010, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of 120,000+ megawatts of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.EDF is one of...

. It maintains a number of emergency intervention teams equipped with high-power radiation-hardened

Radiation hardening

Radiation hardening is a method of designing and testing electronic components and systems to make them resistant to damage or malfunctions caused by ionizing radiation , such as would be encountered in outer space, high-altitude flight, around nuclear reactors, particle accelerators, or during...

 teleoperated

Teleoperation

Teleoperation indicates operation of a machine at a distance. It is similar in meaning to the phrase "remote control" but is usually encountered in research, academic and technical environments...

 mobile robot

Mobile robot

A mobile robot is an automatic machine that is capable of movement in a given environment.-Overview:Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location...

s for intervention in nuclear accidents

Nuclear and radiation accidents by country

This is a List of nuclear and radiation accidents by country.This list only reports the proximate confirmed human deaths and does not go into detail about ecological, environmental or long term effects such as birth defects or permanent loss of habitable land.-Brazil:*September 13, 1987 – Goiania...

. INTRA is an acronym for "INTervention Robotique sur Accident", robotic intervention on accident.

As of March 2011, Groupe INTRA is shipping equipment to Japan to help with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

External links

• Official website (English)