Red Whittaker of Carnegie Mellon stands beside an early prototype of RadPiper, a pipe-crawling robot that will help decommission uranium enrichment facilities in Ohio and Kentucky. Photo: Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania

Episode for March 15, 2019

This week on The Allegheny Front, Carnegie Mellon researchers designed robots to clean up the Three Mile Island accident. That was just the beginning. A local high school student who organized Pittsburgh’s Youth Climate Strike. A carbon-free society will need a skilled workforce. News about abandoned gas wells, controlling spotted lanternflies and the Clairton Coke Works.

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