Game Changers challenge - Post Operational Clean Out.pdf

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Find out morePlease download the challenge statement for full details of this opportunity.Additional background information on <a href="https://www.gamechangers.technology/researchArea/5f889a0acb721f4107598b09" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">POCO at Sellafield</a> is also available.The application deadline for this challenge is&nbsp;18 February 2022 at 13:00.

Post Operational Clean Out (POCO)

POCO is a phase in a plant's lifecycle after operations have been completed where the radiological and chemotoxic hazards in the facility are reduced to a level which will enable the plant to undergo surveillance and maintenance and make the decommissioning process safer, faster, and cheaper.To support POCO, Sellafield and Ltd and Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd would like to explore innovative:<ul><li>Access, deployment, and navigation techniques to remotely deploy tools for characterisation and decontamination</li><li>In-situ chemical and physical characterisation</li><li>Collection, interpretation and modelling of real time data</li><li>The use of chemical and physical methods to mobilise contamination</li><li>Decontamination of concrete</li><li>In-situ storage and immobilisation applications</li></ul>

Sellafield Ltd and Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd are looking for innovative technologies to support Post Operational Clean Out.Techniques to enable the reclassification of waste, approaches to effectively remove hazardous material from cells or process equipment and methods to enable the deployment of tools in hard to access areas are desired