Five UK firms chosen to demonstrate innovative tech to tackle radioactive waste
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Five UK companies have progressed through to the next phase of a £5 5 million radioactive waste segregation competition
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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.