As highlighted in the September/October 2024 issue of the Nuclear Institute\’s Nuclear Future magazine. The September/October 2024 edition of Nuclear Future features an in-depth profile of Professor Bill Lee, whose long and varied career has significantly contributed to nuclear materials research and the development of nuclear skills in the UK. Now an integral part of the Nuclear Futures […]
On the 21st January 2025, the School of Computer Science and Engineering held its first years PhD and MScRes conference. This conference had students talk about their research questions, the background of their work and their plan of research. Students from computer science and the Nuclear Futures Institute participated in the conference. Representatives from the NFI
Prof Simon Middleburgh, co-director of the Nuclear Futures Institute at Bangor University, has been invited to become a member of the committee of the French National Agency for Research (ANR) to evaluate and select the proposals for the DIADEM exploratory Priority Research Programme and Infrastructure call. Simon was chosen as a result of his experience
PDRA Opportunity in Fusion Power Plant Regulation NFI is looking for a PDRA to deliver a project on the development of a fusion power plant (FPP) regulatory framework to enable the global deployment of FPPs. The project is funded by the Clean Air Task Force based in Boston MA USA and will be initially for
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The Bangor University Lead Loop for Erosion/corrosion Testing (BULLET) has been delivered to Bangor University, M-SParc, by SRS in Italy this week. BULLET will test materials in flowing, high temperature lead (Pb).
From the 20th – 22nd of June 2022, the Nuclear Futures Institute hosted a three-day conference – The Universities’ Nuclear Technology Forum. UNTF is one of the oldest nuclear engineering conferences in the world. It provides a great opportunity for early-stage researchers to present work to their peers and build their professional network.
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This project would aim to investigate the feasibility of producing tritium on the industrial scale that would be required to support the deployment of fusion power so that FPPs would not have to breed their own tritium. The longer-term vision is for the UK to create a tritium production industry that could service both the UK and global FPP industry need. In the shorter term it is recognised that STEP, other UK and international small spherical Tokamak reactors and private fusion endeavours will need tritium supplies for their early year.
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The Nuclear Future’s Institute’s Dr Simon Middleburgh and NFI Honorary Professor Lyndon Edwards have been quoted in a press release article by Nature on molten salt nuclear reactor technology. Nature was first published in 1869 and is the world\’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives innovation in the world’s most important scientific topics.
The Nuclear Academics Meeting 2021, provided a forum for academics working on nuclear energy-related research, from new build through to decommissioning of existing reactors to discuss topics of common interest. The Nuclear Academics Meeting attracts speakers from industry, academia, both national and international. This year\’s Nuclear Academics Meeting was held by the University of Cambridge on the
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The Nuclear Futures Institute are very pleased to announce the publication of a new research paper written by PhD Student Mustafa Bolukbasi, co-authored by Simon Middleburgh, Marcus Dahlfors, and Professor Bill Lee. The paper is titled “Performance and economic assessment of enriched gadolinia burnable absorbers.”