On Wednesday 28 June, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and the University of Strathclyde, welcomed over 100 stakeholders to their second Innovation and Technology Roadshow at the university’s Innovations and Technology Centre in Glasgow.
The roadshow is the second of four events the NDA is hosting across the UK in 2023/24. It celebrated the wealth of nuclear decommissioning expertise in Scotland, the strong relationships held with academia and industry, and demonstrated how new technology, such as robotics, is transforming how the UK’s earliest nuclear sites are decommissioned safely and securely.
The NDA is currently decommissioning 17 sites across the UK, 3 of which are in Scotland: Dounreay in Caithness, Chapelcross in Dumfries and Galloway and Hunterston A in Ayrshire. The sites collectively employ around 2,500 people as well as benefitting more than 460 people in the Scottish supply chain.
Across these sites, a wealth of knowledge and innovation is applied to advance the NDA’s mission. Recently Lyra, a robot developed by Dounreay in collaboration with the University of Manchester to inspect areas of the site too hazardous to be accessed by humans, was commended in the TIME magazine’s ‘200 Best Inventions of 2022’.
