Frazer-Nash supports UKAEA

UK engineering and technology provider Frazer-Nash has won a four-year contract with the UKAEA to support its involvement in three major fusion reactor programmes.

The contract is part of a multi-supplier framework agreement in which participating companies are given the opportunity to bid for contracts on an ad-hoc basis.

Frazer-Nash will provide design, structural, neutronics and thermal analysis services to UKAEA as part of its involvement in the MAST (Mega-Ampere Spherical Tokamak) upgrade and the world’s largest tokamak magnetic chamber, JET (Joint European Torus), located in Culham, Oxfordshire.

In addition, Frazer-Nash will support UKAEA’s work on the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) programme - a scheme designed to demonstrate the capabilities of fusion nuclear power on a large scale.

Ken Neal, nuclear business manager at Frazer-Nash, said: ‘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.