Business opportunities from Fusion and ITER
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The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and UK Trade & Investment are jointly organising an event at Culham Science Centre on 23 September 2010, for UK companies to understand the procurement process and procurement opportunities that are arising from the €5 billion construction of the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) which is under way at Cadarache, France.
ITER will take 10 years to build and will require conventional and also specialist engineering expertise. Europe's domestic agency for ITER procurement, Fusion for Energy (F4E), has over €800 million to commit this calendar year and several billions over the coming years.
At the event there will be speakers from both F4E and the central ITER Organisation in France, and also from CCFE to cover procurement opportunities at Culham.
The event will provide ideal opportunity for UK companies seeking to enter fusion/ITER programme along with an opportunity for pre-registered companies to have one to one meetings with the commercial team from ITER-IO and from F4E.
Tours of the accessible areas will also be available for pre-registered individuals to see JET (Europe's flagship programme and the world's largest fusion reactor) and MAST (UK's own fusion reactor) in which UK industry has played a big role.
For more information including the programme and how to register, visit www.fusioniteropportunities.org.uk
A previous feature article on these opportunities can be found here.
