UK-Japan nuclear waste partnership
The UK and Japanese Governments are co-funding research to detect and process radioactive waste.
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The research will support work to decommission Sellafield Nuclear Plant, as well as remove radioactive debris from the Fukishima nuclear accident in Japan.
The £1mln has been split across two projects by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
It will address the following challenges in:
- Radioactive waste treatment, packaging and storage
- Remote handling, robotic and autonomous systems in decommissioning
- Environmental behaviour of radionuclide release and management of risk and degraded infrastructure
The projects are being led by the Universities of Sheffield and Strathclyde, UK/
The UK-Japan Civil Nuclear Research programme is a partnership between UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
This is the first UKRI award through the International Science Partnerships Fund.