In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Sustainability Champion category, which recognises organisations driving groundbreaking innovation to meet the needs
The first stable atom to form after the Big Bang was hydrogen. Transformed into other atoms through stellar nuclear fusion, it is the foundation of
For more than a century, the UK’s Rolls-Royce have designed power systems for cars and planes, ships and submarines. Today, they are developing a novel
A major project, like building the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant, can take decades to plan. Gaining approval requires planning not just for the
Automation is now routine in most factories. However, it is harder to implement in more variable environments. The nuclear sector is tackling how to use
More and more of the economy is being powered by the grid and that trend will continue over the next few decades. At the same
Robots are increasingly able to take on any repeatable task in industry, and are used in many dull, dirty or dangerous tasks. But their deployment
The US National Ignition Facility recently announced that it had achieved a milestone in the development of fusion technology, producing more energy from a fusion
The UK government recently confirmed its support for Sizewell C. Getting to this point, and planning how thousands of construction crew and millions of tonnes
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has agreed to invest CA$970 million in the country’s first small modular reactor (SMR). Ontario Power Generation is developing the
US energy company General Atomics has revealed its concept design for a fusion power plant. The plan opted for the steady-state, compact tokamak design which
A nuclear power company announced last month that it had completed the development of a new reactor design. This variation on the molten salt reactor