What the buyer wrote
The University has recently been awarded £1M to further develop the Nuclear Fuel Centre of Excellence (NFCE), which was opened last year at a cost of £2.5M. This is a world-leading research centre, and one of a handful of academic sites in the world which are able to handle representative quantities of nuclear fuel. The additional funding has been secured to introduce the capability to develop Accident Tolerant Fuels (ATF), i.e. those able to tolerate accident conditions while maintaining cladding integrity. As part of this research, the Nuclear Fuels group at the University is working to develop novel fuel forms, and exploring the use of alternative manufacturing routes. Through the NFC…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Purchase of a Spark Plasma Sintering Furnace
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 7 Jul 2015
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2016
Who the buyer named
Mark Worrall was the named contact on this notice.