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Oil exploration technology will play key role in decommissioning Windscale

Fifty years ago this month, a fire raged through Pile 1 of Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, sending a plume of radioactive material as far afield as London, Germany and Scandinavia.

Now a new robotic tool based on conventional hydraulic technology more familiar in oil exploration is playing a key role in the decommissioning process.

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is working with US automation company Special Application (SA) Robotics and specialist decommissioning engineers C2HM Hill to return Windscale to a brownfield site.

Richard Roper, ...

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