Detailed design and build of a scaled down Fast Acting Low Conductance (FALCON)
United Kingdom Fusion Energy Ltd
Key facts
- Buyer
- United Kingdom Fusion Energy Ltd
- Category
- Other
- Deadline
- 24 days left
- Value
- £200,000
- Published
- 09/11/2026
- Source
- Find a Tender
In short
United Kingdom Fusion Energy Ltd needs a detailed design and manufacture of a scaled down Fast Acting Low Conductance valve prototype. The valve must reach its closed position within 37.5 milliseconds to protect exhaust vacuum pumping technology.
Written by a model from the notice text. The official notice is the authority.
From the notice
The scope of this work is to provide the detailed design and manufacture of a scaled down Fast Acting Low Conductance valve (FALCON) prototype which will be used to safeguard the proposed exhaust vacuum pumping technology against Disruption mitigation or sudden massive air ingress events for the STEP Prototype Powerplant (SPP). The scope of work includes the detail design and build of a scaled down prototype, which includes everything within the Vacuum Gate/Isolation valve casing (including the casing itself), mainly the actuation mechanism and the seals required to maintain both the operatio…