Framework supports effort to harness new source
of almost limitless clean energy
DALLAS, May 22, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected by the United Kingdom
Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) for its multi-supplier Engineering
Design Services framework (EDS).
Jacobs has been appointed to all capability areas on the
four-year framework, valued at up to $11.25
million (£9 million), which supports the development of a
U.K. industrial supply chain capability by allowing the companies
to work closely with UKAEA as it undertakes fusion energy
research.
"The EDS framework is intended to support UKAEA with the
delivery of strategically important tasks alongside routine
support. It allows us to work collaboratively with UKAEA and its
supply chain to find solutions to some of their most complex
engineering problems," said Jacobs Vice President Andy White. "We support UKAEA on the existing
framework in four capability areas and we have now built on this to
expand our role and become a full-service supplier."
EDS covers mechanical, process, electrical, control and
instrumentation, and systems engineering, as well as computer-based
modelling and simulations, and specialist nuclear services ranging
from laboratory research to decommissioning and waste
management.
UKAEA manages the U.K. fusion program at the Culham Campus, one
of the world's leading fusion research laboratories. Its programs
include the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), which
aims to build a prototype power plant by 2040 to demonstrate the
ability to generate net electricity. This is a key milestone
towards harnessing fusion, the reaction which powers the sun and
stars, as a new source of safe, clean and near-limitless
energy.
Jacobs is also delivering a range of technological and
engineering innovation and support to ITER, the world's largest
fusion energy project based in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France, and now employs more than 350 people
working on fusion around the world, in positions ranging from
research and development to project delivery, creating new
opportunities for physicists, scientific researchers, project
managers and engineers in all disciplines.
"This framework has enabled UKAEA to work collaboratively and
with maximum efficiency with the fusion supply chain," said UKAEA
Strategic Procurement Business Partner Colette Broadwith. "By
renewing it for another four years, UKAEA can continue to leverage
the engineering and technical expertise of our industrial partners
to help accelerate fusion energy's commercialisation, for the
benefit of all."
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