The Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC) is proud to be the digital partner of Sellafield’s new mixed Reality training tool. Recognised for its ongoing commitment to innovation, Sellafield is the first in its industry to commission the ground-breaking new technology as part of its adoption of digital innovation frameworks and training plan.
The new tool is designed to provide engineers with Sellafield training and refresher training in a mixed reality environment without the need for the physical crane to work on. Sellafield operators will be the first in the industry to experience this cutting-edge technology.
The Sellafield site in Cumbria, where the new waste removal crane installation is situated, is one of Sellafield’s most hazardous processes and each operator must be highly skilled and accurate in the process before operators can carry can this out in the real-life environment for nuclear waste removal.
Using a range of digital technologies, operators will be immersed in the process, using sight, sound and touch using the actual chair, control joystick and force that would be needed to carry the process in a mixed reality setting, without the risks associated doing this in a real-life environment, reducing exposure, costs and increasing safety to the operators.
