| Engineering and technology provider Frazer-Nash has been successful in bidding for inclusion in a four-year multi-supplier framework agreement to provide professional engineering services to support UKAEA’s involvement in major fusion reactor programmes. Four framework agreement companies will submit bids for work packages as and when they arise.
As part of the UKAEA’s involvement in three key fusion research programmes – the MAST upgrade and JET in Culham, Oxfordshire, and the international ITER project – Frazer-Nash will be supplying ongoing design, structural and thermal analysis services to complement UKAEA’s technology development work.
Culham is the centre for fusion research in the UK, and features the world’s largest tokamak magnetic chamber – the Joint European Torus (JET) – as well as Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST), which has been operational since 1999 and is due to be upgraded. Frazer-Nash will be supporting UKAEA in its work at both these facilities across a range of engineering disciplines including design, structural analysis, fluids & heat transfer and neutronics.
In addition, Frazer-Nash will be providing dedicated engineering services to supplement UKAEA’s work on the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) programme – the pioneering scheme to demonstrate the capabilities of fusion nuclear power on a large scale.
Ken Neal, Nuclear Business Manager at Frazer-Nash, commented: “Fusion power has the potential to transform the way nuclear energy is generated on a global scale and UKAEA plays a crucial role in the development of fusion technology, both in the UK and internationally.
“Our expert knowledge of structural and thermal analysis in particular will be crucial here and we will be calling on our highly-skilled nuclear teams from across the UK to deliver this important piece of work.”
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