An Appleby firm is among 14 businesses awarded contracts to come up with innovative approaches to remotely sort and segregate radioactive waste. Barrnon Limited is among the winners of the Sort and Seg competition, worth £3.9 million in total. Launched in July 2020 by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, in partnership with Magnox Ltd, Sellafield Ltd and Innovate UK, 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.
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