#372 Sustainability Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
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#372 Sustainability Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 30, 202615 min

In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Sustainability Champion category, which recognises organisations driving groundbreaking innovation to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It promotes the conservation of natural resources, reduces waste and pollution, and supports social and economic stability. Our award-winning entrant is the Nuclear Manufacturing Group at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), whose team partnered with Cambridge Vacuum Engineering and Kairos Power to pioneer electron beam welding for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) vessels. Their...

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500 hours. That's how long it takes to weld one massive thick-walled pressure vessel for a small modular reactor, a working month of intense heat, massive energy consumption and high emissions. Now imagine there was a way to do the same job in just 5 hours.

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Not 50. 5. Hello and welcome to Engineering Matters. I'm Tim Sheehan.

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And I'm Alex Conica. This week we are returning to announce another winner in the Engineering Matters Awards 2026. In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we are recognising the organisation whose work has seen them recognised as winners in the Sustainability Champion category. And to learn more about the win of this year's category, we are diving straight into one of the most exciting, fast-moving frontiers in modern engineering. The global race for clean, scalable, continuous power.

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