UK, October 6, Rolls-Royce has joined together with ITN Business, New Scientist and UK Space Agency for the programme ‘This Is Space’. The programme features key industry interviews and news-style reports along with editorial profiles.
We have long been a pioneer of innovation, with more than 60 years of nuclear expertise that is now reaching right into the heart of space technology and exploration.
Filming took place at the Space Park Leicester with some of our top nuclear experts including Director for Future Programmes, Abi Clayton, who said of our ambitions: “We’ve got such a technology superpower at Rolls-Royce with our nuclear heritage. The UK wants to be a science superpower, and this is the bargaining chip that opens that door.”
With a focus on our new micro-reactor technology, the video is an insight into the people and places that are making it happen. The Rolls-Royce team based at Space Park Leicester have access not just to state-of-the-art facilities, but also to some of the brightest minds in industry and academia. Professor Gary Jones, Head of Manufacturing Innovation at Rolls-Royce, explained: “With the team we’ve got behind it, we’ll have every success.”
The technology itself has many other applications including for terrestrial power, supporting the delivery of low cost and clean energy that will help us deliver on our net zero ambitions and play our part in enabling the transition to a low carbon global economy.
