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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, @06:19PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 23 2019, @06:19PM (#897720)

    Don't take in nuclear waste from other countries if you can't fucking deal with it...

    As the name Sellafield is now as toxic as the content of the site, maybe it's time to debrand it, and give it back it's old Windscale name (as most people have forgotten that little series of unfortunate events which lead to the rebrand..)

    (Though I will admit that I'm slightly intrigued by the mention of 'pools of mystery sludge' in one 2015 New Scientist article about the place..there's a schlock horror creature feature lurking in there somewhere..)

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday September 23 2019, @09:26PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 23 2019, @09:26PM (#897816) Journal

    Don't take in nuclear waste from other countries if you can't fucking deal with it.

    A small problem with that.

    Nookular waste from other countries probably comes with money attached to it.

    Irresistible money. Incoming stream must be separated into two streams. The money stream and the waste stream. Keep the money stream to yourself. Let someone else deal with the waste stream.

    Seems simple enough. Even an MBA could figure this out.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @04:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @04:25AM (#897956)

      Put it on a ship with no paperwork and no destination. Eventually it will find itself dumped in the ocean. OMG how did that happen?