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The new year brings an exciting new role and responsibility for AWE graduate physicist, Josiah O’Brien, who has been appointed to the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Young Professionals Board (YPB). The WISE YPB is responsible for developing opportunities that support WISE in its quest for gender balance in STEM industries. It comprises a […]

“Our way of operating is fully inclusive, getting the best from every team and every individual.” AWE is very proud to announce that today we have been accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department of Work & Pensions.  It’s very timely as 3rd December is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The […]

We are delighted to announce that the AWE Quality team won Team of the Year at the International Quality Awards, hosted by the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) at London’s prestigious Connaught Rooms. The International Quality Awards celebrates excellence in the Quality sector. Judged via a rigorous evidence-based process, these awards acknowledge the contribution of the […]

AWE Charity Fund has made a donation to support the Woodland’s Trust Pledge to Plant a million trees for The Big Climate Fightback campaign. As part of AWE’s commitment to be a responsible business we have donated over 400 tree saplings to our staff and local community in exchange for a small donation to our […]

As part of our activities to support national  Road Safety Week we have been helping our local schools spread the message by supporting them in their own campaigns to raise awareness with pupils in their schools. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Step up for Safe Streets” and we donated some junior road safety […]

MOD Quality Awards 2019 At a ceremony held in Bristol on 5 November, AWE won four awards in this year’s prestigious MOD Quality Awards. This is a great achievement for the business. In total the MOD gave out 14 awards across industry and various departments within the MOD and Armed Forces. The judges also chose […]

AWE has awarded a contract to Cray to install a new supercomputer using their new Shasta computer architecture. The name Vulcan was chosen after a vote by staff who will be using the system. Vulcan certainly packs a punch, featuring 5000 processors based upon 32-core, 2.9 GHz, second-generation AMD EPYC ‘Rome’ sockets, with a theoretical […]

The Autumn edition of ‘Connect’ – the newsletter for our neighbours, is out now. Read all about how we’re recruiting for our next intake of graduates, as well as how successful the 2019 Primary Science Challenge was this year. Read ‘Connect’- November 2019

Year nine pupils from eight different schools competed to win the AWE Schools Engineering Challenge last week.  To win, the pupils were tested by AWE graduates on their engineering prowess via a number of challenges. The pupils had to create a hydroelectric generator, by designing and making a turbine, its housing unit, and the magnetic […]

AWE’s Director, Infrastructure Projects Delivery, Alison Atkinson has today (Oct 17) been recognised as the sixth most influential woman in engineering, by Inclusive Boards, in partnership with the Financial Times. Alison sits on the AWE Board and has responsibility for the delivery of AWE’s multi-billion pound capital investment programme, involving the design, construction and commissioning […]

AWE’s Head of Product Assurance, Graham Hughes, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering He is one of 54 leading engineers, from the UK and around the world, who have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to the […]

AWE welcomes the Chief Nuclear Inspector’s Annual Report 2018/19 published today (11 Oct) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR).   The AWE sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield remain in enhanced regulatory attention for the 2018/19 period. This has been in part due to continued operations in ageing facilities while replacements with modern safety standards […]