RAICo has access to a Mast Mounted Manipulator (MMM) system which is a Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) owned asset, that has been designed and manufactured to support nuclear decommissioning activities at NRS Winfrith. The system consisting of three mast manipulators that RAICo is exploring for additional opportunities and potential system repurposing. The project to evaluate additional opportunities and the feasibility of repurposing through to the potential installation and commissioning of the system is expected to commence during Autumn 2025 and conclude by 31st March 2025.
UKAEA wish to engage with potential suppliers for the provision of the design, prototype production and irradiation testing of sensing and processing technologies, potentially including force/torque, proximity, tactile or pressure, current temperature, angular and linear position sensing, as well as all associated electronic circuitry required to excite and process these sensors.
This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (PMEN) is to identify available capabilities within the supply chain for the data annotation and object detection model training under challenging visual conditions.
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority requires the services of the Maintenance of High-Pressure Compressors and Breathing Equipment Systems. All the compressors, compressed air filters, breathing air driers/filtration and driers are located inside various site plant rooms across site, all these buildings are unique in both design and use. The service will be required on UKAEA’s Culham Science Centre site.
As a part of the progress in fusion energy UKAEA needs to analyse fuel, waste or storage gases. We are aware that the market in analytical instruments and development of techniques is changing rapidly and wish to find out more about current availability and capabilities of Raman spectrometers detecting and differentiating gases.
A single storey mezzanine to be designed and installed to provide additional storage and to link up two existing mezzanines to create access between the two. There is currently a staircase down from one of the existing mezzanine’s that we would like to remove subject to building control as this is in the space between the two. The mezzanine is to have finishes matching the current one. Loading requirements to be 750kgm2 or higher.
The UKAEA intends to go out to tender for safety case support services on a call off basis. The contract duration will be for a period of 3 years, with the option of a 1 year extension. Support may be required to all aspects of the production of staged safety cases, including but not limited to: Hazard Identification (inc. HAZOP Chair and Secretary), Consequence and Frequency Calculations, Design Basis Assessment, Probabilistic Safety Analysis, Human Factors, ALARP Arguments. Whilst this will be focused on radiological hazards, it will also include assessment of conventional process hazards (non-radiological major hazards).
Goods Required: Design, Manufacture and installation of a new water chiller system for the D15 power supply cooling circuit. Purpose: The existing HV power supplies for MAST-U require an independent closed-circuit chiller system. A new chiller must be integrated with the pre-existing circuit and heat exchanger to provide sufficient cooling capacity. The chiller system must reject the heat outside of the building. The process fluid to be chilled is de-min water.
UKAEA wishes to engage with Small to Medium Enterprises (SME), designers and manufacturers for the supply of a detritiation system for the Tritium Management System located in the new Lithium Breeding Tritium Innovation (LIBRTI) Facility at the Culham Campus.
The Fusion Opportunities in Skills, Training, Education and Research (FOSTER) programme is an ambitious national fusion skills programme delivered by UKAEA on behalf of the UK fusion sector. FOSTER’s mission is to train over 2000 people by 2030, ready to take roles within the fusion industry. The intention is to work with universities, businesses, and international partners to increase the number of apprentice and graduate, postgraduate and doctoral, and post-doctoral opportunities within the fusion skills ecosystem in the UK. One mechanism being used to support an increase in PhD numbers is through the FOSTER Programme’s Industry PhD Support Scheme Awards. These Awards will contribute a fixed sum towards the cost of a fusion related PhD in a UK university that commences by 31st December 2026. There are two tiers of award values available under this initiative: 2 awards of £65,000 are designated specifically for small businesses (less than 50 full-time employees), while the remaining awards are valued at £40,000 and are open to all eligible applicants. The application form must detail the full cost of the project and show how the remaining balance of funding will be provided. PhD topics should be beneficial to the wider UK fusion sector i.e. not only relevant to one specific fusion device. PhD projects that are already underway, as collaborations between a university and an industry partner, but experiencing existential financial difficulties may also be proposed for consideration.
UKAEA are seeking the provision of off-site archive services (including collection, indexing, storage, delivery and destruction) for a large organisation, currently comprising of approximately 7,500 archive boxes & plan holders for five years from January 2026. Additionally, it would be desirable for contractors to offer a digitisation service to scan and provide digital copies of archived records.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority's main HV Pulsed Power supply to the Culham site is via a dedicated overhead line fed directly from the National Grid at 400kV, transformed down to 33kV. The main distribution substation for this supply is J5 substation, located at the north end of Culham Campus. The substation is undergoing a significant upgrade in 2026. The scope is for part of that upgrade. It covers the design, manufacture, delivery, installation, and commissioning of: • A replacement 415V AC Distribution Board, • 3 replacement auxiliary supply cubicles including isolation transformers, • A new 400/33 kV inter-trip panel to transfer trip signals between the 400 kV and 33 kV substations, and • A new 400 kV revenue metering panel capable of metering the 400 kV supply for each of the three Super-Grid Transformers (SGTs). All of the above must be capable of integration with a new IEC 61850 SCADA system.
UKAEA uses and will continue to use a variety of packaging types for its solid and liquid incinerable waste, including 200ltr steel drums or fibre kegs as well as plastic packages of varying volumes (20l up to 1000L IBCs as appropriate). Where dangerous goods, either class 7 or otherwise require disposal, the organisations qualified and appointed DGSAs (Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors) will review and approve packaging choices
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has a requirement for the design, manufacture, delivery, installation, and commissioning of a complete SCADA system, including an operator workstation. UKAEA are looking to engage a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) specialist to develop a new SCADA system based on the IEC 61850 protocol, replacing the existing SCADA. Further brief details are contained in the document by following the link in this notice.
Develop and test tools and solutions to scabble/ shave/plane brick and concrete walls by remote operation with the primary focus on brick walls. The requirement is to remove 5mm of the surface of the walls in localised areas and capture (vacuum or similar) any loose material from the scabbling/shaving process
The UK Atomic Energy Authority has a requirement for the Supply of a Simultaneous 5 Axis Mill/Turn CNC Lathe. Brief details of the requirement and what we hope to gain from this pre-market engagement are contained in the Market Engagement document which is available by following the link to eu-supply in this notice. This requirement is required to be supplied by 31 March 2026.
The UKAEA Health Physics Laboratory provides analysis of tritium contaminated smears, air samples and liquids from facilities across the Culham site. In addition, gaseous stack discharge samples are also processed. Tritium is measured via LSC techniques. There is potential for Alpha or Beta contamination of tritium samples, although these contamination levels are very low, it is critical that the laboratory’s analytical capabilities are maintained to continue the support of UKAEA’s mission and goals. This procurement is for three Liquid Scintillation Counters, including requirements to supply, recycle, install, commission, and provision of training.
The purpose of this work is to act as an independent reviewer for the uncertainty framework currently under development, which will include uncertainty in facility performance including the neutron field that tritium breeding experiments are exposed to, scientific output including the measurement of tritium extracted from experiments, and facility safety including tritium released in the blockhouse.
UKAEA request information on products, including ROM costs, that could provide containment for operations involving size reduction of tritiated stainless steel waste (ILW and potentially LLW). UKAEA proposes an online meeting in w/c Mon 19th or 26th Jan 2026 to discuss further. This new containment system would be integrated into an existing building that already contains operational tritium systems, which will continue to be operational throughout the installation and decommissioning of this new containment system. UKAEA prefer COTS products with modular design. Note that this work is currently at the system requirements definition stage. Estimates for space available within the existing building can be shared in the proposed meeting above.