2.1
Three Key Pillars
Our new Agenda is designed to address the market and strategic requirements facing the nuclear sector now, and to continue generating new opportunities and offerings for our existing customer base.
We have devised a balanced portfolio that recognises the way our work typically provides a technology push to address existing requirements, but also allows for the market to pull our work into areas where aspirations lie. It is made up of three key pillars:
Core Science
Pioneering 12 areas of science, all of which support our Focus Areas, funded by reinvesting the earnings generated across NNL. All will drive collaborations with universities, contribute to our commercial contracts and provide a platform for scientifically challenging work.
Innovation
Developing new ways of doing things that will foster a culture of challenge-solving within NNL, and working with our customers to address their innovation requirements through the application of science and technology. Additionally, we aim to support the supply chain to develop solutions for the future, by partnering with Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
Strategic Research
Using the capabilities we have built up, typically through our Core Science areas, to develop not-for-profit programmes that fulfil a technical challenge of national importance. They represent the next phase of development of the technologies involved.
Collaboration
We recognise that we cannot hold these three pillars up alone. The foundation that underpins all our work is Collaboration: working with academia, industry partners and our national and international collaborators to bring together key skills, infrastructure and financial resources, ensuring that we can successfully deliver our Science and Technology Agenda.