Instead of the conventional sheet of billowing canvas, the sail under test resembles an airplane wing. Furthermore, the ship to which it has been attached is not your typical ship.
It is one of the three nuclear transport ships in the UK’s fleet, which are specifically built to transport spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from Sellafield in Cumbria to countries like Japan in accordance with long-standing nuclear decommissioning agreements.
Peter Buchan, managing director, stated, “We felt we’d be in a great position to support a UK company that’s looking for an effective solution when this opportunity to trial a sail came up.
This is a component of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a government-owned organization.
Since our operations are quite safe and secure, I’m confident that if you can make a sail function in our setting, it can be applied to the entire maritime sector.
