Harwell Science And Innovation Campus
Starting life as RAF Harwell, the Campus played a significant role in the Second World War. With its established infrastructure, attractive location and proximity to academic talent in Oxford, Harwell was chosen as the UKs centre for civil nuclear power research, a role for which it gained an international reputation for scientific excellence. From the early 1990s there was a dramatic change of direction. Whilst the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory continued their ground breaking scientific research, the UKAEA part of the Campus underwent a transition from a government research site into a leading centre of science and technology business. Today the Campus is the focus of some £500M of investment in new science and business facilities, the jewels in the crown being the Diamond Synchrotron, the UKs largest investment in science for 30 years and ISIS, the worlds largest pulsed neutron source.