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 […]
Last week (5th-7th July 2023), the Uranium Science international Conference was held at the Henry Royce Institute at the University of Manchester. NFI staff and students, who are working on fuel-related projects, attended the conference to share the results of their current research, learn of the work that is being carried out by other institutions,
Five Nuclear Futures academics and students presented their research at TMS 2022. TMS aims to bring a multi-disciplinary mix of engineers, scientists, business leaders, and other professionals in the minerals, metals, and materials fields. This year, the conference was held in person in Anaheim, California.
Ser Cymru Reader, Dr Simon Middleburgh was invited to share his opinions and insights on this news on the BBC Radio Wales Drivetime Show – Radio Wales Drive. Simon discussed how this breakthrough would be a \”major springboard\” to future experiments and a confirmation that all of the science and engineering work that has gone into making fusion a possiblity over the past few decades is indeed viable and that exciting times are ahead of us in the world of nuclear science.
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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.
Lee Evitts, Fiona Pearce, Simon Middleburgh, Michael Rushton and Bill Lee have had their latest article published in the Nuclear Future magazine. The article is called “The future of medical radioisotope production in the UK” and can be found in the July/August 2021 issue (membership required). Since Henri Becquerel’s discovery in 1896, radioactivity has been
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The paper Utilizing neutronics modelling to predict changing Pu ratios in UO2 in the presence of Th, authored by Lee Evitts and co-authored by Matthew Gilbert and Simon Middleburgh of the Nuclear Futures Institute has been presented at the annual meeting of the International Technical Working Group on Nuclear Forensics (ITWG; www.nf-itwg.org). The paper was presented