Using emerging technologies to reduce occupational radiation exposure in the ATLAS ID Decommissioning, and other high-radiation environments

Continuing to push back the frontiers of high energy physics requires colliders and detectors
of increasing scale, operating at higher energies and intensities than ever before. The
unavoidable byproduct of these experiments is an increase of radiation in the surrounding
area. However, reliance on human interventions for such tasks is unsustainable and other
methods must be investigated. This thesis will outline the use of emerging technologies
to reduce occupational radiation exposure in the ATLAS ID Decommissioning, and other
high-radiation environments. This work anticipated the addition of digital twins in the Virtual
Reality Intervention Planning Platform; a benchmark radiation tolerance would provide users
with a lifetime estimation useful for maintenance planning.