A joint project between the
universities of Manchester and
Sheffield for a New Nuclear Build
and Manufacturing (NNUMAN)
programme has been awarded £4m
funding by the Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC) to research innovative
manufacturing for the future of the
UK’s nuclear power supply.

A recent House of Lords’ Science
and Technology Committee report –
Nuclear Research and Development
Capabilities – identified insufficient
research and development capacity
as a potential threat to the UK’s
ability to produce power from
nuclear energy.

The proposal from Manchester
and Sheffield addressed this concern
by promoting research and
development to evolve a robust civil
nuclear power supply to meet UK
and global energy needs well into the
future with significant work on the
fundamentals of manufacturing f
generation of power stations.

The most improved
manufacturing processes developed
in NNUMAN will be taken forward
to prototype in the Nuclear
Advanced Manufacturing Research
Centre in Rotherham and the
National Nuclear Laboratory to
enable UK manufacturing companies
to learn the benefits of the new
methods and use them in the future.

Through a programme of multidisciplinary
research at Manchester
and Sheffield, the next generation of
nuclear manufacturing scientists and
engineers will be trained with the
highest level of academic and
technical support, using world-class
facilities and with strong links to
industry.