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UKSPA Directory 2017
Culham Science Centre is
an internationally renowned
centre for fusion energy
research and development
Culham
Science
Centre
L ocati on
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
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C ontact detai l s
Caroline Livingstone
Head of Property
T: 01235 466 247
E: [email protected]
www.culham.org.uk
Culham Science Centre is the hottest place on the planet and home to some of the
world’s coolest science. A major employment location in Oxfordshire, Culham is a key
part of the globally significant science, technology, and innovation cluster known as
Science Vale Oxford. As well as being an internationally renowned centre for fusion
energy R & D and home of the European JET facility, currently the world’s largest fusion
research machine, it also has a diverse community of over 40 public and private sector
organisations comprising some 2,500 jobs. Culham is a great location for business to
thrive: a place to create, a place to innovate, a place to grow.
The Culham Science Centre
Communit y
Owned and managed by the United
Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
(UKAEA), Culham Science Centre
combines world-class publicly funded
research into fusion power, commercial
technology organisations and an
Innovation Centre, to create a powerhouse
of high-technology innovation and
enterprise in South Oxfordshire, just
a few miles south of the city of Oxford.
Sited in one of the most successful
science locations in the country, reflecting
the cross-cutting and inter-disciplinary
nature of the strengths of the Science
Val Oxford cluster, Culham Science
Centre hosts a wide range of
organisations. Examples include:
• Reaction Engines Ltd, an exciting
aerospace company developing the
technologies needed for an advanced
combined-cycle air-breathing rocket
engine that will enable aircraft to
operate easily at speeds of up to five
times the speed of sound or fly directly
into Earth orbit;
• Aurox Ltd, a leading imaging equipment
company, with its origins in Oxford
University, which is developing new
optical imaging techniques and
products; and
• GeneFirst, a growing molecular
diagnostics company working in the
fields of infectious diseases, cancer
diagnostics, and personal medicine.
Culham Science Centre is a secure
campus‑based environment with its
own restaurant, coffee and deli bars,
shop, meeting rooms, lecture theatre
as well as sports and social facilities.
With a train station just 5 minutes
walk away, supported by excellent
transport links, Culham is the place to
do business in Oxfordshire.
UK AEA business activities at
Culham Science Centre
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
(CCFE): CCFE is home to the Joint
European Torus (JET) and the fusion-
research arm of the UKAEA. JET is the
world's largest magnetic-confinement
fusion device and has been hosted at
Culham since the late seventies.
CCFE also hosts another fusion-
research device, the Mega Ampere
Spherical Tokamak (MAST). An upgrade
to MAST will be operational in late 2017.