The Cumbrian nuclear plant hopes using the robot will mean fewer people are sent into danger zones.

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Sellafield has successfully trialed Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot to safely perform radioactive swabbing in hazardous nuclear decommissioning areas.

It was a taste of what could become one of the decisive threats next year, when the flight path between Dublin and Britain’s Sellafield nuclear reactor was disrupted by unidentified drones. On the ...