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Nuclear AMRC News Autumn 2020 Safe working Midlands investment Advanced modular reactors Autumn 2020 Fit For Nuclear No.39 New members Powering up for recovery Nuclear innovation to drive sustainable growth Nuclear AMRC News Autumn 2020 Welcome back to Nuclear AMRC News We suspended the usual quarterly We now bring you this bumper issue to very much open for business. cover all the developments since our last schedule for this newsletter at the We are aiming to resume our normal edition in January. Like many of you, we’ve start of the Covid-19 lockdown schedule for the newsletter in the new year. had to change the way we work to manage in the spring, to concentrate on If you have any suggestions for the kind of the risks of Covid, and to respond to the our online channels. Our priority story or information you’d like to see, to impact of the pandemic on our customers was sharing timely news and inform and inspire you to further success and partners. We’ve continued to support information which our network in the nuclear supply chain, please do get manufacturers of all sizes across the UK, could easily access wherever in touch. and have secured new funding and started they were – working from some major new research projects to help Tim Chapman, home, carrying on with essential drive our nation's economic recovery. communications manager: manufacturing, or contributing [email protected] to the national effort on PPE and Things are still a long way from normality ventilator production. for many of us, but the Nuclear AMRC is Science minister visits to map the future of research Science minister Amanda Solloway visited the Nuclear AMRC in August to discuss how applied innovation in low- carbon nuclear power and advanced manufacturing can help power an economic recovery across the UK. During her tour of the Nuclear AMRC workshop in Rotherham, CEO Andrew Storer highlighted the potential of electron beam welding and other techniques for the cost-effective production of small modular reactors, and work to support manufacturers nationwide through the Fit For Nuclear programme. Solloway and her BEIS colleagues were the first visitors to the Nuclear AMRC since Covid-19 restrictions were introduced in March. The visit was carefully managed to Inside innovation: Andrew Storer and Koen Lamberts welcome Amanda Solloway minimise any health risk to the visitors or to the Nuclear AMRC. staff, in line with the centre's painstaking approach to safeguarding staff health (see new R&D roadmap with industry come, and to build the foundations for p16). leaders, senior researchers and regional the new industries of tomorrow. The The minister also met Professor Koen stakeholders. government plans to increase public investment in R&D to £22 billion by Lamberts, University of Sheffield Vice- Published in July, the roadmap sets out 2024–25. Chancellor, and apprentices at the AMRC proposals to invest in science and research Training Centre, and took part in a virtual to deliver economic growth and societal www.gov.uk/government/publications/ roundtable to discuss the government's benefits across the UK for decades to uk-research-and-development-roadmap 2 namrc.co.uk Funding secured for Nuclear AMRC Midlands The Nuclear AMRC’s proposal to establish a new advanced manufacturing research centre in Derby has secured government funding. Infinity and beyond: design for the new facility in Derby. The proposal, supported by Derby City The team have developed new capabilities and smart materials. Council and the D2N2 Local Enterprise in technology areas including controls IISE includes a Rail Research and Partnership, was awarded £6.85 million and instrumentation, digital engineering Innovation Centre to support collaborative in August by the Ministry of Housing, and additive manufacturing, and worked research and innovation projects with local Communities & Local Government. with companies of all sizes to help them rail supply chains. It also leads the DE- innovate and win work. Local partners will also invest in the £20 Carbonise project, offering comprehensive million project to create a new permanent The new facility, with around 5,000m2 of support to SMEs which want to reduce home on Derby’s Infinity Park for Nuclear floorspace, will further extend the Nuclear carbon emissions in their operations, AMRC Midlands, creating 70 jobs and AMRC’s ability to help manufacturers production and supply chain. helping to reboot the local economy after develop and adopt innovative technologies The project is viewed as a key part of the Covid-19 crisis. which will deliver the maximum impact for Derby’s post-Covid economic recovery the UK’s nuclear supply chain. “We’re delighted to have received strategy, and will provide local businesses government support for our manufacturing “Nuclear generation is a vital part of with access to cutting-edge R&D facilities research centre on Infinity Park, and look the energy mix for clean electricity and to help them diversify, grow and create forward to continuing our work with Derby meeting the UK’s net zero commitment,” new jobs. City Council, regional universities and Kelly said. “We will work alongside The government funding comes from the businesses to deliver jobs and support the regional industrial partners to ensure Getting Building Fund, which is investing economic recovery of the region,” said a suitably qualified supply chain that is £900 million in shovel-ready infrastructure Dr Emma Kelly, Nuclear AMRC strategy able to capitalise on advanced nuclear and housing projects across England. The director. technologies within the clean energy D2N2 region, which covers Derbyshire and sector.” The investment follows a successful pilot Nottinghamshire, secured a total of £44.4 project over the past 18 months, with the The facility will also be a base for million for projects including a high-tech growing Nuclear AMRC Midlands team the University of Derby’s Institute for food manufacturing campus in Derby, a 5G operating from workshops and offices Innovation in Sustainable Engineering innovation hub in Worksop, and a digital within the iHub facility on Infinity Park, (IISE), which has developed an advanced manufacturing and engineering creating the first High Value Manufacturing international reputation for innovation in centre in Chesterfield. Catapult centre in the East Midlands design, manufacturing, product lifecycle region. management and the application of new 3 Nuclear AMRC News Autumn 2020 New projects to drive nuclear innovation The Nuclear AMRC is part of four new manufacturing R&D collaborations supported by the Nuclear Innovation Programme, and is working with advanced modular reactor developers to progress their technologies with UK government support. The projects are part of a £40 million funding package to kickstart the development of next-generation nuclear technologies and unlock thousands of jobs in the low-carbon energy sector. Around £5 million total has been awarded The other new funded projects are led “Advanced modular reactors are the to seven new R&D projects through the by U-Battery, to design and build key next step in nuclear energy and have the advanced manufacturing and materials components for its compact reactor; potential to be a crucial part of tackling competition (phase 2B), part of the Rolls-Royce, to develop novel sensor carbon emissions and climate change,” Nuclear Innovation Programme. All the technologies; and Jacobs, to develop said business minister Nadhim Zahawi. collaborative projects are led by UK enhanced evaluation technologies for “Today’s investment will immediately create companies, including several SMEs. future reactor plant. new jobs in Oxfordshire, Cumbria and Lancashire. But through this vital research, The Nuclear AMRC is part of four projects: The £180 million Nuclear Innovation the technology could also create thousands Programme is part of BEIS’s wider £505 • Awesim, led by Cavendish Nuclear, more green-collar jobs for decades to million Energy Innovation Programme, to develop automated inspection and come.” which includes investment in industrial monitoring techniques for high-quality decarbonisation, carbon capture, The government is also investing £5 million welding. energy efficiency and other low-carbon to strengthen the UK’s nuclear regulatory • Research with Createc and TSP technologies. regime for advanced reactors, and has Engineering to improve the safety and released a report from the Nuclear AMRC The programme also includes support for performance of radiographic weld and NNL on the readiness of the UK’s generation IV advanced modular reactors inspection. supply chain and research base to develop (AMRs), through an AMR feasibility and and produce AMRs (see p12). • SonicSMR, led by Laser Additive development competition. Solutions, to develop high-quality The funding is part of the Nuclear Sector In 2018, eight organisations won an initial additive manufacturing techniques for Deal launched in 2018. grant to produce feasibility studies on their small modular reactor components. reactor designs. Now, in the competition’s • PITCO2C, led by Nuclear Energy second phase, Westinghouse, U-Battery Components, to develop supercritical and Tokamak Energy have each been carbon dioxide coolant for nuclear awarded £10 million to bring their AMRs machining. closer to market (see opposite). See the following pages for more information on these projects. 4 namrc.co.uk Advanced modular reactors Westinghouse – lead-cooled fast reactor Westinghouse, a founding member technologies and modular construction
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