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 […]
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper in Frontiers in Physics, co-authored by NFI member Alberto Fraile. A stochastic reaction–diffusion modeling investigation of FLASH ultra-high dose rate response in different tissues R. Abolfath, A. Baikalov, A. Fraile, S. Bartzsch, E. Schüler and R. Mohan. Frontiers in Physics. Volume 11. (2023) https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2023.1060910
Dr Michael Rushton has had his latest article published in Nature Index. The article is titled “Exploring small nuclear to plug the energy gaps” and can be found in the 2022 Nature Energy Index. The journal focusses on how the global energy crisis lends urgency to many nations’ plans to decarbonise, shifting from fossil fuels to greener options.
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An interdisciplinary team led by Dr Anita Crompton and funded by NERC, has been investigating the feasibility of using waste nuclear heat to decarbonise and stimulate a reversal in the decline of commercial greenhouse use in the UK. This waste heat could provide the low carbon, low-cost heating needed by greenhouse growers to improve the economics of operations. It could also allow an expansion of edible horticulture, which could benefit the industry, UK consumers and the environment.
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The Nuclear Futures Institute have released a report outlining how the delivery of carbon Net Zero entirely depends on the successful deployment of a range of low carbon technologies working in tandem with each other – including nuclear power.
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Why stop at power generation? Here, Michael JD Rushton and William E Lee suggest that small modular and other advanced reactors could also be employed to generate heat for use in homes and industry, as well as to create clean hydrogen. Experience of both exists in Europe and Russia.
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The Nuclear Futures Institute are very pleased to announce TWO new publications written in collaboration with KTH in Sweden and Westinghouse Electric. Both were published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials focused on two leading Advanced Technology Fuel (ATF) concepts. 1. \”Oxidation of UN/U2N3-UO2 composites: an evaluation of UO2 as an oxidation barrier for the nitride phases\”
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See Part I Here… Dr. Michael Rushton and Prof. Bill Lee have had the second part of their nuclear co-generation article series published in the Nuclear Institute\’s Nuclear Future magazine. It is called \”Co-generation in the early-days of nuclear power in the United Kingdom Part 2: Metal Production\” – and can be found in the
The Nuclear Futures Institute are very pleased to announce the publication our new paper published within the Ceramics International journal looking at preparation methods of Ti3SiC2/Al2O3 ceramic composites via the hot-pressing sintering method. The composition and morphological characteristics of the grains were investigated via X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Furthermore, first-principles
Dr. Michael Rushton and Prof. Bill Lee have had their latest article on nuclear co-generation published in the Nuclear Institute\’s Nuclear Future magazine. It is called \”Co-generation in the early-days of nuclear power in the United Kingdom Part 1: Calder Hall and Chapelcross\” – and can be found in the December 2020 issue (member login