A new group has launched at the University of Sheffield AMRC, made up of former Nuclear AMRC staff, to bolster the AMRC’s nuclear research and innovation, and secure the UK's pivotal role in the future of the sector to support ambitions for growth and net-zero emissions.
Forty-two members of staff formally transferred into the AMRC to create the new nuclear manufacturing group on April 1, following a consultation with Nuclear AMRC staff last year regarding its structure and future work.
The new group enhances the AMRC’s existing nuclear sector capability and supports its nationally important role, alongside the High Value Manufacturing Catapult network, in de-risking investment in new technologies that can accelerate and drive manufacturing innovation into the sector.
The group of talented engineers and researchers bring decades of experience with them and build on the research and innovation of the former Nuclear AMRC at its Rotherham facility, which was retained by the University along with more than £35 million of production-scale manufacturing equipment to ensure R&D project delivery for the sector continues.
We’d like to thank you for your patience, support and engagement throughout this period of change and are pleased to say the team has already had good success in securing new work of scale in support of the nuclear sector, and is building on existing and ongoing collaborations with the likes of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Sandvik, Cavendish, Nuclear Transport Solutions, EPRI and Deep Isolation.
The new group is the eighth at the AMRC, which is part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult national network of research centres, and will bring an additional strength to the AMRC’s existing suite of capabilities: additive manufacturing, automation and robotics, castings, composite manufacturing, design and prototyping, digital manufacturing, manufacturing intelligence and subtractive manufacturing.
It adds to the University of Sheffield and AMRC’s existing and expanding portfolio of nuclear-related activity, which includes the AMRC’s partnership and project work with Rolls-Royce SMR to manufacture and test prototype modules to be assembled into small modular reactors.
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