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posted by martyb on Monday September 23 2019, @02:58PM   Printer-friendly
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Sellafield nuclear power station in Cumbria, northern England, is calling for help to increase the number of robots it uses to monitor and clean the site.

[...] It needs robots that can be deployed to remotely work at height in hazardous areas. It is also looking for machines able to autonomously remove "Special Nuclear Material" packages from a store and put them in a container for export, as well as droids that can remotely inspect the packages.

Sellafield is in the process of being decommissioned, meaning staff and robots are retrieving nuclear waste and reprocessing spent fuel. The Magnox reprocessing plant is due to close next year, which signals an end to nuclear fuel reprocessing in the UK.

Sellafield opened in 1950 and now lays claim to the unenviable title of the world's largest inventory of untreated nuclear waste.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @05:26PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @05:26PM (#897683)

    So, in my area, a few grams of radioactive shit would probably fit right in..other areas, YMMV..

    They should just put it in the oceans. We already have more plastic in it than fish but industrial dumping and finishing continues unabated.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @06:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @06:24PM (#897722)

    Industrial dumping?

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/tons-of-arms-dumped-at-sea-1601949.html [independent.co.uk]
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14820042-200-danger-from-the-deep/ [newscientist.com]

    There's all sort of fun things down there...pity it won't stay there..

  • (Score: 2) by Pav on Tuesday September 24 2019, @07:13AM

    by Pav (114) on Tuesday September 24 2019, @07:13AM (#898002)

    Dumping nuclear waste goes to the lowest bidder... often the mafia [independent.co.uk] - it's quite a lucrative business. Don't worry about it... they've got all the right paperwork.