Five UK companies have progressed through to the next phase of a £5 5 million radioactive waste segregation competition gov.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gov.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Owner Andy Barr said: “We are incredibly proud of our unique work. It recognises the strengths of our organisation.
“This is a great achievement. Credit to the team and to our clients both here in the UK and across the Atlantic in America.”
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Barrnon spent four years developing a product which aims to solve one of the world’s biggest environmental problems – how to safely retrieve nuclear waste.
Last summer, the company built an 80ft testing tower to mimic nuclear storage and used HoloLens tech to keep American clients fully up to speed with the project’s progress.
Barrnon is currently in contract to find a way to clean up nuclear waste in underground tanks at the Hanford site in Washington State.
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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 nuclear sites. The first phase of the competition is now complete and contracts, worth up to £60k each, were awarded to 14 firms that will come up with feasibility studies for their proposals, including robotics, advanced sensors and artificial intelligence.
Sellafield contract winners announced for Sort and Seg competition timesandstar.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesandstar.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.