UK shipyard and maritime engineering company Cammell Laird is using virtual modelling expertise from the University of Liverpool to overcome delivery challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis on a project related to small modular nuclear plants.

As part of a government initiative, Cammell Laird submitted a successful bid to develop an onsite facility that would enable it to design, construct, outfit and deliver modular power plant sections – focusing on fuel assemblies for sodium cooled reactors.

Faced with a potential delay to the risk-assessment phase of the government-funded project, Cammell Laird has called upon experts at the university’s virtual engineering centre.