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| Amec wins engineering design contracts on fusion reactor projects Amec, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded two important contracts by Fusion for Energy (F4E), the organisation responsible for providing Europe's contribution to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being constructed in the south of France. The first contract, worth up to €4 million, sees Amec and its partners deliver the concept designs for the crucial Test Blanket Module components that convert neutrons into tritium, to fuel the fusion reaction. Amec's partners include Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) - the UK's national laboratory for fusion research, Idaho National Laboratories and specialist companies including Hyde Engineering Group. For the second contract, the value of which has not been announced, Amec has formed a joint venture with Iberdrola Engineering and Construction, and Leading Enterprises Group of Spain, to provide engineering design services to develop a semi-prototype panel for the internal wall of the fusion reactor. Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) is the UK's leading fusion research laboratory. CCFE scientists and engineers are working with partners around the globe to develop fusion as a new source of clean energy for tomorrow's power stations. CCFE is based at Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire, and is owned and operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. CCFE is home to the UK's fusion research programme, most notably the MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) experiment and it also hosts the world's largest fusion facility, JET (Joint European Torus), which is operated for CCFE's European partners under the European Fusion Development Agreement. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Construction News :: home page |