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ITER
Heads of Procurement for ITER meet UK companies
Too hot to handle?
Technology Transfer
Super steels could benefit industry
Exhibitions and Events
Meet the Buyer event 16 September 2008
Miscellaneous
New Culham Director sees bright future for fusion
Engineer profile - Paul Thomas
UKAEA Fusion Annual Report now available

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Meet the Buyer event 16 September 2008
 
On 16 September industry had an unrivalled opportunity to make new contacts with large scientific research facilities at a packed “Meet the Buyer” event in London organised by the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN and UK Trade & Investment.

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Delegates and stands at the Meet the Buyer event
 
     
Heads of Procurement for ITER meet UK companies
 

Fiona Digby-Grant from ITER meets a UK company at the Meet the Buyer Event
A popular feature of the Meet the Buyer event on 16 September was the ‘one-to-one’ meetings, which were booked solidly all day. These allowed company representatives to meet senior procurement officers from the central ITER organisation and the European ITER Agency Fusion for Energy (F4E), as well as from other research facilities like CERN, the European Space Agency and Diamond.

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Too hot to handle?
 
Leading consultants for remote handling applications, Oxford Technologies Ltd has completed a project with its consortium partner French company Comex Nucleaire for the review of the baseline concept remote handling systems and facilities for the ITER Hot Cell.

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ITER Hot Cell design
 
     
Super steels could benefit industry
 

Computer model of the atomic structure of steel
New findings by fusion materials researchers at UKAEA Culham could lead to stronger steels for use in other engineering projects, including skyscraper construction, nuclear fission reactors and hydrogen production plants.

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New Culham Director sees bright future for fusion
 
Professor Steven Cowley became Director of UKAEA Culham in September, following the retirement of Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith.

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Professor Steven Cowley
 
     
Engineer profile - Paul Thomas
 

Dr. Paul Thomas
Dr. Paul Thomas is Head of the Heating & Current Drive, Diagnostics, CODAC and Plasma Engineering Divison at Fusion for Energy. He is also Deputy Head of F4E’s ITER Department.

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UKAEA Fusion Annual Report now available
 
UKAEA has published its 2007/08 Annual Report on the progress of the fusion programme at Culham. The report - including an accessible summary brochure as an overview - is available in pdf format on the web at: www.fusion.org.uk.

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