RMS – The search for a Gamechanger for Sellafield

Sellafield, the UK’s largest nuclear power plant has the toughest task of its career ahead of it. A long term decommissioning rollout, due to begin by 2023, will see the plant’s 170 individual nuclear facilities decommissioned at an estimated cost of £85 billion.

These facilities are a diverse collection of buildings and structures containing highly complex systems of pipes and structural steel. Add to this, very limited access, and then of course the presence of hazardous nuclear waste, Sellafield’s operator realised early on that decommissioning by human hand would be extremely time consuming, not to mention extremely dangerous.

Seeking innovative solutions to the problem, they launched their Game Changers programme to fund organisations with a strong idea to proof of concept stage. One such is start up Remote Maintenance Systems (RMS).