Press Releases

Secondary pupils from across Berkshire and Hampshire competed to win the annual AWE Engineering Challenge.

AWE experts recently supported the Working Group B (technical working group) of the Preparatory Commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) in Vienna.  Leigh Turner, UK Ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, met the team at the CTBTO headquarters in the Vienna International Centre and thanked them for the hard work […]

A new Centre of Excellence in Energetic Materials (CoEEM) has been established with the aim of delivering a UK national capability in explosives and energetic materials.

Silchester Primary School pupils are enjoying their refurbished library, which includes a new bookcase funded by AWE. School Librarian, Eve Rynott, said: “Thank you to AWE for this invaluable support which has enabled us to buy a new bookcase. Our science books are now displayed prominently for all the children to enjoy”. As well as […]

A £500 donation from AWE is making waves at Oakbank Secondary School, Ryeish Green, Reading. The school purchased an oscilloscope and a power signal generator for use in science classes and experiments. The equipment is used to generate and measure sound waves; frequency, amplitude and wave length.  Oscilloscopes are used widely in the sciences, medicine, engineering […]

Researchers from AWE, the University of Oxford and Imperial College London are illustrating how to at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

Junior scientists from local schools took part in a fast and furious team competition to be crowned winners, in the final of the 2017 AWE Royal Institution Master Class series.

AWE graduate Catriona shares her story to inspire other young women into a career in engineering, in support of International Women in Engineering Day (IWED), this Friday (June 23).

Events to celebrate World Environment Day, on 5 June, were held at AWE’s sites at Aldermaston and Burghfield this week to raise awareness of environmental issues. The `drop-in’ exhibitions for staff featured displays illustrating AWE’s extensive environmental protection schemes, the ways in which its environmental experts plan and deliver the organisation’s environmental protection programme and […]

AWE science graduates used a very gloopy mix of materials for some fun experiments at Hatch Warren Junior School in Basingstoke in the Primary Science Challenge. Pupils took part in three separate experiments – making magnetic slime, lava lamps and ‘electric fruit’ batteries. They also watched demonstrations of scientific principles such as gravity, magnetism and […]

Pupils at St John the Evangelist Nursery and Infant School in Newbury learned about waste and recycling in a visit from part of AWE’s environmental team. As part of a workshop during the school’s Science Week, on the topic of ‘recycling and our world’, the youngsters heard about what types of waste can be recycled, […]

Following the terrible events in Manchester on Monday, our thoughts are with the families and communities of everyone affected by this tragedy. Across the UK, as part of Operation Temperer, a number of Army units have been mobilised to support the police and some Army personnel have arrived at AWE (Burghfield and Aldermaston). This is a […]

AWE is holding an open physics lecture in conjunction with the Institute of Physics (IOP).

May 8-14 is Mental Health Awareness Week and AWE is backing the Mental Health Foundation’s campaign to boost awareness of mental health as a workplace asset. Nearly two thirds of us have experienced mental ill health at some point in our lifetime. According to the Foundation, mental health problems are all too common in the […]

AWE has launched a primary school competition in support of World Environment Day, Monday June 5. Schools are invited to submit posters (one for key stage one and one for key stage two) on the theme of ‘How I Can Make a Difference to the Environment’. The posters could include aspects of reducing waste, recycling, […]

AWE will feature in an upcoming BBC Four science documentary about the making of Britain’s first nuclear weapon, entitled 'Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story'.

Apprentices from AWE hosted a ‘Design a catapult’ challenge this week.

AWE has launched @AWE_plc on Twitter- the first official social media account for AWE.   We hope people will follow us to hear about news, recruitment opportunities, technical articles by our experts and stories from our historical archives.   Our first tweet – ‘Welcome to life @AWE_plc’ hints at how we will use Twitter to share […]

AWE Connect newsletter has been published to our local residents.

AWE Plasma physicist  Dr Matthew Hill responded to an enquiry from a local primary school by going out and meeting the pupils face to face about his work with lasers. Pupils at the North Waltham primary School near Basingstoke were delighted to welcome Dr Hill to their weekly science club. Dr Hill has been at  […]