Amec Foster Wheeler has been selected to lead a new project to set up a high-temperature facility (HTF) for nuclear industry research.
The firm has won £2 million of funding from the UK government to establish the HTF, which will undertake vital testing work on materials used in current and future nuclear reactors.
Greg Willetts of Amec Foster Wheeler’s Clean Energy business said that the award would "cement" the company’s leadership in understanding how materials inside reactors perform at high temperatures.
"This programme will help to re-establish the UK as a major contributor to advanced nuclear reactor technology and play an important part in fulfilling the aims of the UK government’s Nuclear Industrial Strategy."
The award followed a competitive bidding round in which Amec Foster Wheeler led a consortium made up of the National Nuclear Laboratory, EDF Energy, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Urenco, the Universities of Manchester, Bristol and Oxford, the Open University, and Imperial College London.
As an open access facility, the HTF will be used by organisations in the nuclear industry and by university researchers.
