Sheffield firm leads group in bid for ITER reactor work

摘要

Sheffield-Based heavy engineering firm Davy Markham is leading a consortium of British companies hoping to construct the main reactor vessel for the French ITER nuclear fusion reactor.rnThe ITER project may be the last chance to prove that nuclear fusion - the same reaction that produces energy in the sun - can supply future energy requirements.rnDavy Markham will work with precision fabricatorrnMetalcraft, engineering giant Amec and the Welding Institute (TWI) to win the contract to build vacuum vessel segments.rnKevin Parkin, managing director of Davy Markham, said TWI's expertise in electron beam welding would be crucial to the consortium's bid.