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Tender Details
- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Provision of Autonomous Waste Sorting and Segregation Auto Sas
- GBT Ref No: 103522704
- Deadline: 30 Jul 2024
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: 9500000
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: CF-0154700D4L000000iAvzUAE
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- The NDA and its operating companies recognise that robotics and automation have a key role to play in reducing the time, cost and risk associated with our decommissioning mission. Auto-SAS aims to push the boundaries of robotic systems in the NDA group, acting as a steppingstone to the routine use of autonomous systems and continuous operations.
An area where robotic technologies provide a significant opportunity is nuclear waste handling. The characterisation, sentencing and disposal of radioactive waste is complicated, time consuming and expensive. It also poses both conventional and radiological risks to workers. Ideally waste would be handled once, segregated at source to the most appropriate waste route, properly utilising the waste hierarchy. Safety measures, alongside resource, time and space constraints, make in-situ sentencing challenging, meaning that accurate segregation is not always possible.
Auto-SAS will build upon the learning from the NDA funded Integrated Innovation for Nuclear Decommissioning - Sorting and Segregation (IIND-SAS) competition delivered through Innovate UK, which sought to demonstrate the feasibility of autonomous sort and segregation of mixed nuclear waste through the supply chain. Auto-SAS will go further by deploying an integrated system on a nuclear licenced site, for the sorting and segregation of specific radioactive waste material. The Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) Strategic Innovation Team will be responsible for the ove... - Documents :
Purchaser : NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING AUTHORITY
Herdus House Ingwell Drive Moor Row, Cumbria CA24 3HU GB
Contact Person : Madeline Jones
Email :madeline.jones@nda.gov.uk
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