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BAE Collaboration Welcomed
BAE Systems plc. and Reaction Engines Limited have started a working collaboration to accelerate Reaction Engines’ development of SABRE – a new aerospace engine class that combines jet and rocket technologies with the potential to revolutionise hypersonic flight and the economics of space access. The working partnership sees £20.6 million investment from BAE Systems in ...
MRF Handover
The grand opening of the Materials Research Facility (MRF) is due to take place during Spring 2016 with building contractor E G Carter expected to handover keys to the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) imminently. Data gathered from scientists using the new facility could be used to make nuclear power stations safer helping to extend ...
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New Training Centre at Culham Science Centre
The UK’s leading training provider for the building services engineering sector, JTL, is creating a learning facility at Culham Science Centre to provide Advanced Apprenticeships, Training and NVQ Assessments to Oxfordshire’s young people and businesses. JTL has recently signed a five year lease for 8,500 sq. ft. to provide ‘off-the-job’ learning facilities for up to ...
New furnace to help SABRE engine
The Reaction Engines (REL) team are celebrating the installation of a new £1.5 million state-of-the-art high vacuum furnace to assist in the development of their SABRE Engine Demonstrator Programme. Jointly funded by REL’s private capital and the European Space Agency, representatives from the UK Space Agency, Department of BIS and the European Space Agency ...
MAST Update
Engineers from Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) have received delivery of a two tonne, five metre-long, copper centre rod, one of the key components for the MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) Upgrade. The centre rod is an integral part of forming the device’s ‘toroidal’ magnetic field, which confines the hot plasma in its ...
Global Science Scapes
Eight delegates from the Leverhulme Trust International Network: ‘Global Science ‘Scapes: Dimensions of Transnationalism’ recently visited Culham Science Centre (CSC) for briefings on the development of the site, fusion research and a tour of JET. The network, hosted at Oxford Brookes University, includes seven partner institutions across the UK, US, Europe and Asia. It aims to ...
Advanced Materials Spotlight
The Materials Research Facility (MRF) is due to open its doors at Culham Science Centre in December 2015 with plans already in progress to expand the new building. Capturing the attention of companies such as Rolls Royce, AMEC and EDF Energy, universities from Oxford, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester and London, and organisations including EUROfusion and ...
