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Duke of Cambridge’s Visit Marks End of MAST Upgrade Construction
It was a special day for UKAEA yesterday as we were joined by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, to celebrate the completion of Britain’s new fusion experiment. The Duke visited Culham for a tour of the MAST Upgrade machine and heard about the potential of fusion energy to change the world. During Green GB Week, ...
Booming Business in Culham Means Expansion for Science Centre
Culham Science Centre, home to 1,500 highly skilled scientists and innovators, has been granted permission to expand by Science Minister Sam Gyimah. The expansion is needed now that the successful campus site is full. The move will create space for more hi-tech businesses, working in fusion technology and related fields, bringing an estimated 200 new ...
Oxbotica Receives £14million Investment
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has welcomed the £14 million investment in autonomous vehicle company Oxbotica, which uses its Culham Science Centre site as a testing base. Oxbotica this week announced the investment, which it will use to accelerate its growth as it develops the software behind autonomous systems in sectors including aerospace, automotive, ...
Interview with Professor Susan Greenfield of Neuro-Bio by UKAEA
As well as UKAEA, Culham Science Centre hosts a range of leading scientific companies. One of these is Neuro-Bio, a biotech company with a focus on neurogenerative disease. Scientist, writer and broadcaster Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield (pictured) is CEO of Neuro-Bio, which she founded in 2013. Richard, from the UKAEA communications team, spoke to Susan ...
UKAEA Recruitment Fair 19 September 2018
UKAEA will be hosting a Recruitment Fair at Culham Science Centre on Wednesday 19th September between 5pm and 9pm. The event will focus on attracting attendees from across all levels and disciplines to support our continued growth. This is a great opportunity for prospective employees to be inspired by what we do and how we ...
55th Culham Plasma Physics Summer School
The 2018 UKAEA Culham Plasma Physics Summer School took place in July and was the 55th to be held at Culham Science Centre. This year 41 students from 23 countires attended which represented 36 different institutions globally. The two-week school timetable was supported by nearly 30 lecturers from the universities of Manchester, Strathclude, York, Warwick, ...
Apprectices Take Plaudits at National Contest
It was a Culham clean sweep at this year’s National Apprenticeship Competition at Cranfield University. Two teams of apprentices attending OAS, and another team from UKAEA, took the top three places. The event is a national competition for engineering apprentices to compete for a cash prize of £1,000 to showcase their design projects at the ...
Aurox Brings Clarity to the Macroscope
Aurox is on a mission to bring the Clarity laser free confocal technology to an ever greater number of applications in microscopy. Wherever, applications are plagued by out-of-focus images Aurox can potentially bring confocal Clarity to give higher quality and 3-D imaging. The latest step in our mission brings Clarity to the Macroscope. To achieve ...
New Driverless Cars Milesone Achieved With Vehicles Interacting
Yesterday (Wednesday 18th April 2018) the DRIVEN consortium demonstrated publicly for the first time the capabilities of its fleet of autonomous vehicles to interact and ‘talk’ to each other. From its headquarters at the RACE Building at the Culham Science Centre in Abingdon, DRIVEN set two of its vehicles, a white and blue 2014 Ford ...
Reaction Engines Secures £26.5m Investment From New Industrial And Financial Investors
Reaction Engines Limited (‘Reaction Engines’) today announced that it has raised a further £26.5 million in a strategic fundraising by securing backing from some of the most influential names in aerospace and finance which will support its development of SABRE™ – a revolutionary new class of aerospace engine combining jet and rocket technologies. New strategic ...
