Press Releases

The future’s looking sustainable, thanks to the bright ideas of local Key Stage 3 students working with AWE graduates to mark World Environment Day on 5 June. Teams from six schools (Hurst Community College, Brighton Hill School, Park House School, Kennet School, Dove House School and Willink School gathered at the Hurst in Tadley to […]

Experimental physicist Francisco Suzuki Vidal blogs about his experience of undertaking experiments at AWE Orion. It has almost been precisely two years since I finished the very last of my experiments at Orion, one of the largest lasers in the world. Reminiscing my time at this unique scientific facility brings back fond memories of my experience […]

AWE was the proud winner of an OSPA for ‘Outstanding Event Security Team’ at the 2018 UK Outstanding Security Performance Awards. The OSPAs event took place at the Royal Lancaster in London earlier this month. Over 400 security professionals gathered to celebrate outstanding performance examples across the sector. The AWE team won their section for […]

AWE welcomes the announcement today (March 14th) of the Burghfield REPPIR off-site emergency planning area (EPA) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation.

To mark International Women’s Day we are sharing the stories of some of the many inspirational women that work at AWE. Molly, a materials science graduate, tells her story – “I have always had a keen interest in science. However, my School’s head of science was pivotal in shaping this as a career option. Her […]

This National Apprenticeship Week, March 5-9, a working mum-of-three is hoping to inspire others

It’s a typical UK winter morning and I’m taking a short walk to assist with some thinking. There’s plenty of fresh air and green space around me here and given the size of the estate, I could easily walk for an hour and still be ‘at work’.

AWE has applied to the Environmental Agency to increase an environmental permit limit relating to the discharge of radioactive material.

AWE employees donated 1.2 tonnes of festive food this December to the Basingstoke Foodbank for its Christmas Hamper scheme. The goodies were wrapped in nearly 200 boxes and will be distributed to vulnerable families and individuals by the charity. Foodbank administrator Jenny d’Ambrosi said: “A big thank you to the AWE employees for their amazing […]

By Sian Butler, AWE Head of Materials and Analytical Science 17th August 2017 was an exciting day in the Butler household. Like thousands of students across the country our youngest son was anxiously waiting for A Level results that would determine, at the very least, the next 3 years of his life. After many months […]

AWE is pleased to announce that an enabling contract has been signed to allow us to work with Sellafield Ltd and The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to secure a long-term solution for the appropriate treatment and storage of our Higher Activity Waste (HAW).

Like all organisations with over 250 employees we are publishing our gender pay gap report, annually, starting this year.

AWE was joint winner of the Community Legacy category at the Thames Valley Business magazine’s 2017 awards. Philippa Kent, AWE’s community engagement manager, said: “We’re absolutely delighted and this is a fantastic recognition for all the hard work and commitment put in, not just by our team, but everyone across AWE who does such a […]

Four Year 10 pupils from Cove School in Farnborough visited AWE’s gigantic Orion laser after winning the AWE Challenge at this year’s TeenTech. Maths teacher Lisa Trapnell, who is also a director of progress at the school, said: “We met Colin, Head of Profession for Physics and Mathematics for AWE. He showed us around and […]

A two-week, thousand-mile cycle marathon raised more than £3,000 for charity and visited five universities to showcase careers opportunities at AWE. The Route to Success team was made up of graduate and senior scientists and engineers, including chief executive Iain Coucher. They team cycled enough miles to go to China and back and each individual […]

AWE technician Amy Lambden has won the south-east category in the regional final of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2017.

AWE employees raised £5,024 for Macmillan cancer support with a baking bonanza, in support of the charity’s world’s biggest coffee morning.

Secondary pupils from across Berkshire and Hampshire competed to win the annual AWE Engineering Challenge.

AWE experts recently supported the Working Group B (technical working group) of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) in Vienna.  Leigh Turner, UK Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, met the team at the CTBTO headquarters in the Vienna International Centre and thanked them for the hard work […]

A new Centre of Excellence in Energetic Materials (CoEEM) has been established with the aim of delivering a UK national capability in explosives and energetic materials.