The UK government has awarded £3.95 billion to BAE Systems to further design and engineer the UK’s and potentially Australia’s next-generation nuclear-powered attack submarine, SSN-AUKUS. With critical decisions being made on sourcing Michael Slattery looks at the difficulties faced by Australian industry to have a meaningful role in the programme. The latest AUKUS contract for…
The federal government is to fund construction of a new nuclear medicine manufacturing facility at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) Lucas Heights complex in Sydney. The government did not estimate the cost of the facility, reportedly likely to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, which will replace the ageing Building…
Archer’s biochip design validated by commercial foundry partner Fabless semiconductor company Archer Materials has had its advanced graphene field effect transistor (gFET) chip design validated by an unnamed commercial foundry partner in the Netherlands with a whole four-inch wafer run. The new gFET device designs have been fabricated and the foundry process was successful, according…
UNSW students in Sydney are to build a nuclear fusion capable machine – a tokamak – as part of a programme designed to engage undergraduate and postgraduate students in ambitious, long-term, multidisciplinary challenges. Led by UNSW academic and nuclear engineering expert Dr Patrick Burr, the tokamak is a doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber with powerful magnets to…
Rapid welding technology manufacturer K-TIG has cut the amount of cash it is seeking from investors to fund the purchase of UK advanced manufacturer Graham Engineering Limited (GEL). The acquisition marks the company’s entry into the United Kingdom nuclear decommissioning sector, with K-TIG vying for contracts to manufacture containers to house nuclear wastes. The company…
