Ricoh UK has today announced a renewed partnership with UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).

The partnership will see Ricoh supply UKAEA, the UK’s national organisation responsible for the research and delivery of sustainable fusion energy, with a Ricoh Pro C7500 with integrated Plockmatic and Duplo finishing, helping to increase print automation capabilities and improve print output quality.

Stuart Morris, Print Manager at UKAEA, commented: “Ricoh continues to be a valued partner to Print Services at UKAEA. This most recent investment in Ricoh technology has enabled us to streamline what were previously time-consuming and manual operations, allowing us to build further workflow automation into our production environment.”

Ricoh’s ongoing support and commitment to the partnership is all part of delivering innovative print and automation solutions as a trusted partner to some of the UK’s leading organisations and print providers.

For further information, please visit https://www.ricoh.co.uk/business-solutions/graphic-communications/.

About UK Atomic Energy Authority 

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is the UK’s national organisation responsible for the research and delivery of sustainable fusion energy. It is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

UKAEA’s fusion machines include MAST-Upgrade (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) and the JET (Joint European Torus) research facility. JET’s operations were funded by the UK Government from 2021 until 31st December 2023. UKAEA is delivering the transition of JET from plasma operations to repurposing and decommissioning, on behalf of the UK Government. The insights gained from this process will contribute to the advancement of sustainable future fusion powerplants.

UKAEA was allocated £650 million for the UK’s alternative programme to associating to Euratom R&T. This entails establishing new facilities at UKAEA’s Culham Campus in Oxfordshire to facilitate the advancement of new technologies and expand fusion fuel cycle capabilities. The funding aims to foster world-leading innovation while also stimulating general industry capacity through international collaboration and the development of future fusion powerplants. Additionally, a fusion skills package will be introduced focusing on nurturing expertise across a spectrum of disciplines and levels. In 2021, UKAEA opened its Fusion Technology Facility near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, to develop and test materials and components for future fusion powerplants.

UKAEA also undertakes cutting edge work with academia, other research organisations and the industrial supply chain in a wide spectrum of areas, including robotics and materials.

More information: https://www.gov.uk/ukaea.

About fusion energy 

When a mix of two forms of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) is heated to form a controlled plasma at extreme temperatures – 10 times hotter than the core of the Sun – they fuse together to create helium and release energy which can be harnessed to produce electricity. There is more than one way of achieving this. UKAEA’s approach is to hold this hot plasma using strong magnets in a ring-shaped machine called a ‘tokamak’, and then to harness this heat to produce electricity in a similar way to existing power stations.