Sellafield contract winners announced for 'Sort and Seg' competition
SELLAFIELD, in partnership with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Magnox Ltd, have announced the winners of a competition to sort and segregate radioactive waste remotely. On Tuesday it was announced that 14 companies were awarded contracts to come up with innovative approaches to remotely sort and segregate radioactive waste. The ‘Sort and Seg’ innovation competition is worth a total of £3.9m and was launched in July. It set the challenge of coming up with proposals for using autonomous technology to sort and segregate mixed radioactive wastes at the UK’s oldest nucl...