Cross your fingers! Sellafield Ltd. in Cumbria, in the North West of England is using 3D scanning and, possibly, 3D printing for disposing nuclear waste! Sellafield is the site of one of the world’s original nuclear power plants. Built in the 1940s, the plant has shifted from producing nuclear energy for war to producing it for peace, until, after numerous controversies, it was finally decommissioned in 2003. Now that the site has spent longer than ten years undergoing the more than £70 billion decommissioning process, at the expense of UK taxpayers, the plant’s operator, Sellafield Ltd., is experimenting with 3D scanning and printing to save time and costs.…
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