Cavendish Nuclear Gains Green Light for £2.1m ‘AWESIM’ Manufacturing Project

Cavendish Nuclear has won Government backing to pioneer advanced manufacturing and sensor technologies with the potential to deliver significant savings for the nuclear industry.

The Automated Welding Equipment System Inspection and Monitoring is the first of its kind to combine machine learning, sensor development and advanced remote manufacturing processes to deliver welding, weld inspection and potentially weld certification all in near real time.

Cavendish Nuclear will be delivering the work along with some of the UK’s most renowned engineering and academic institutions, to achieve urgent industry targets of a 30% cost reduction in nuclear new build along with savings of 20% in nuclear decommissioning projects by the year 2030.

Once developed, the technology will enable detection of flaws as they occur, leading to significant reductions in cost and time in manufacturing processes.

Tony Burnett, Head of Innovation and Technology for Cavendish Nuclear said: “There has been extensive planning for several years to get to this stage, but we can now develop this ground-breaking technology with our collaboration partners across industry and academia.”

“We’ve initially developed AWESIM for the nuclear sector but any industry developing large scale critical assets involving high integrity welding processes will benefit from what it will deliver.”

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