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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.

The company has 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 the top nuclear experts including Director for Future Programmes, Abi Clayton, who said of the 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.”

Micro-reactor technology

The Rolls-Royce have access not just to state-of-the-art facilities, but also to some of the brightest minds

With a focus on  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.”

Many other applications

The technology itself has many other applications including for terrestrial power, supporting the delivery of low cost and clean energy that will help deliver on the net zero ambitions and play parts in enabling the transition to a low carbon global economy.

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