VULCANS (the Virtual Centre for the Application of Nuclear Systems) is a multi-year Research & Development project aiming to help develop very small nuclear power systems to support sensors and propulsion in space and in other remote and challenging environments.
What the buyer wrote
Report on sector requirements and demand, covering: o Demand from public and private sector organisations for Deployable Nuclear Power Sources and their fuels; o Technical specification for isotope systems and fuel forms, in particular drawing on space mission profiles and launch safety requirements; o Capabilities required to exploit the UK's nuclear waste inventory for isotope systems; o Capabilities required and to develop micro-reactor fuel forms and reactors; o Demand for access to SACRED and PuMA2 (including associated potential revenue or cost recovery mechanisms); • Design/Engineering Specification for SACRED and for PuMA2 o Including project plan detailing path to final commissionin…
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- What the buyer calls it
- VULCANS (the Virtual Centre for the Application of Nuclear Systems) is a multi-year Research & Development project aiming to help develop very small nuclear power systems to support sensors and propulsion in space and in other remote and challenging environments.
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Ian Graffy was the named contact on this notice.