September 20, 2024
Rolls-Royce has secured funding from UK Space Agency, as it backs research by Rolls-Royce into how nuclear power could be used to support a future Moon base for astronauts. Scientists and engineers at Rolls-Royce are working on the Micro-Reactor programme...
Engineering specialist, Sheffield Forgemasters, has signed an MOU to collaborate with Holtec Britain on the development of components for its SMR-160 reactor. Following similar agreements signed with three other nuclear power companies, the MOU with Holtec will see Sheffield Forgemasters...
Engineering specialists McMenon have made a senior appointment as the UK company further expands in the nuclear and renewables markets. Scott Castlehow has joined McMenon as its new Business Director to help the Workington-based firm achieve further growth in nuclear,...
Burcas has many years of experience in supporting the Nuclear and Oil industries which places the company in a strong position for growth. With the current development of Modular Reactors in the Nuclear sector, Burcas is well placed to utilise...
Michell Bearings has successfully completed station blackout (SBO) tests on a thrust and guide bearing used within the reactor coolant pump at a new build nuclear power plant. In what is thought to be one of the world’s first successful...
Company to Test Innovative Use of Nuclear Energy : Hydrogen to Heysham (H2H) will test an innovative use for nuclear energy, says Xavier Mamo, Director of R&D at EDF Energy. Hydrogen gas has long been talked about as a new...
Nuclear AMRC Midlands Is Now Open : The new research and innovation centre Nuclear AMRC Midlands is now open in the iHub at Infinity Park, Derby. The launch event for this major expansion of the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre,...
Hitachi Suspends All UK Nuclear Work : All work on UK nuclear power schemes – the £20 billion Horizon station at Wylfa Newydd in Wales and Oldbury in South Gloucestershire – has been suspended by the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi due...
Wood Group, together with four other contractors, secured funding that will be used to apply a navigation system designed for Mars missions and heavy-lifting robots that will help clear the radioactive rooms at âEuropeâs most complex nuclear siteâ. The funding...
The Unions GMB and Unite have started to ballot members over the planned industrial action at the £18 billion Hinkley Point nuclear power station. The two unions will be carrying out this consultative ballot of their 700-strong workforce as the...
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