A UK-Japan alliance will develop robotics and automation techniques for both the decommissioning nuclear facilities and nuclear fusion research.
It will support delivery of faster and safer decommissioning at Sellafield and the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors in Japan, using long-reach robotic arms.
The £12m project, called LongOps, is a four-year research collaboration, funded equally by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).
The project will be led by the UKAEA’s Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (“RACE”) facility.
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