STORAGE: Changes are being made to Maryport Inshore Rescue station to make additional room to keep their equipment in. Work is underway at Maryport Inshore Rescue to increase their storage space. They have started to carry out some minor work to the station to allow for more room to house their equipment At the weekend assistance in the work was received from Chambers and Harrison and from Forth Engineering (Cumbria) Ltd. Maryport Inshore Rescue thanked both companies, who gave help and loan of equipment. The rescue service is also currently looking for new volunteers and would like to hear from men or women aged 18 and over that are interested in becoming involved as: lifeboat crew, swift water rescue crew, flood rescue crew, search and rescue crew and fundraising crew.
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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.
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