£7m
awarded to to develop Hot
Robotics demonstration
facilities across the UK.
NATIONAL
NUCLEAR
USER
FACILITY
AWARD
£3.6m
awarded to create a trace analysis system able to
detect low level plutonium residues in soil. This
proposal came from a successful RAIN funded
secondment to ETH Zurich in 2018.
2
start-ups/spinouts directly
from grant investment
101
journal articles
published
20
of which are in top 10%
journals in relevant fields
1
Number of licence deals
directly from grant investment
8
of which are joint
with industry
35+
RAI systems/sub-systems demonstrated
to potential customers in live or
simulated Hazardous Environment test
facilities/environments
5
Demonstrations in active environments
Avexis (Sellafield and Slovenia), MIRRAX
(Sellafield), Carma (Sellafield), RAIN RI (UKAEA),
Drones (Chernobyl, Fukushima)
Simulated environment: 30+; including
Handling (glovebox), Snake (glovebox
inspection), Avexis (Japan), drones,
ground vehicles etc
4
RAI systems/sub-systems
brought to market by partners
Mona, VEGA, Mallard (Ice-9)
and Carma (Nuvia)
OUTCOME
AND
IMPACT
7
