BERKELEY, United Kingdom, June 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Chiltern Vital Group (CVG) and Cambridge Atomworks are happy to announce the signing of a letter of intent to facilitate analysis and improvement into Cambridge Atomworks’ ODIN nuclear micro-reactor on the Berkeley Green Science and Technology Park.
Chiltern Vital Berkeley (CVB), the Group firm that owns and is growing the Berkeley mission, is in remaining stage negotiations with a number of nuclear and power know-how corporations wishing to find on the Berkeley Green website. Chris Turner (CEO of CVG and CVB) stated, “Cambridge Atomworks agreeing to site their prototype research and development facility at Berkeley represents another important step forward for the development of the Berkeley Green Science and Technology Park (BGSTP) by Chiltern Vital Berkeley as a global zero carbon energy technology, education and training hub within the Severn Edge Nuclear Supercluster.”
For Cambridge Atomworks it is a main step ahead within the regulatory improvement of the ODIN micro-reactor and will present key solutions concerning the mixed physics and thermal hydraulics of the micro-reactor required by regulators the world over. In retaining with the coaching ethos of the BGSTP, Cambridge Atomworks CEO Ian Farnan stated, “After our physics demonstration campaign has been completed, our objective is to use the Berkeley-based prototype reactor as a training facility for our global workforce and the UK nuclear workforce. Currently, there is no reactor training facility for this purpose in the UK.”
About Cambridge Atomworks
Cambridge Atomworks is a UK firm aiming to utilise the very excessive power density of nuclear fission to offer dependable energy with considerably decreased logistics for power intensive native energy necessities in off-grid conditions. Providing options for (i) the growing power necessities at mine websites as growing demand for crucial minerals and metals wanted for the power transition calls for extra processing of supplies on website; (ii) contributing to power fairness by delivering energy appropriate for power intensive industries and installations crucial to improvement in areas with no grid infrastructure. www.cambridgeatomworks.com
Ian Farnan, CEO
About Chiltern Vital Group
CVG is the creator and a developer of multi-million-pound, know-how led main initiatives similar to Berkeley Green Science & Technology Park and Yorkshire Energy Park. These massive scale, multi-sectoral initiatives embrace AI, schooling and coaching, nuclear power know-how, and regional regeneration. Working with world class companions, CVG senior administration have an impressive observe document of delivering multi-million-pound initiatives each within the UK and internationally. Such initiatives ship long-term socio-economic and environmental legacies for native and regional communities and create funding hubs to assist long-term regional development.
Chris Turner, CEO
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