The Nuclear Industry Association has published its annual jobs map of the UK for 2020, that shows nearly 60,000 people are employed in the civil nuclear sector across the UK. The South West is noted as an employment hotspot for the industry, with 12, 476 people employed in the region. This is bettered only by […]
A research team from the University of Bristol was selected as one of the five best entries of the International Atomic Energy Agency Crowdsourcing Challenge that sought original concepts for advancing the decommissioning of nuclear facilities or environmental remediation of radiologically contaminated sites. The team’s submission was entitled characterization toolkit to enable accelerated decommissioning activities […]
Industrial and academic members of the South West Nuclear Hub have been successful in the recent announcement of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Direct Research Portfolio framework. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) mission is to clean up the UK’s earliest nuclear sites safely, securely and cost-effectively with care for people and the environment. The Universities of […]
Several new research outputs relating to nuclear energy have been published from the University in August. Here is a summary of these publications with links to the full papers. Radiocarbon dating A team of researchers at the Universities of Belfast, Sheffield, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St. Andrews and Historic England, among many other international institutions, used […]
Dr Peter Martin of the University of Bristol has been awarded a prestigious five-year Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship. Dr Martin, a Research Associate in the School of Physics and the South West Nuclear Hub, is one of 16 early career academics across UK Universities to win this funding which aims to help top […]
A new international research paper presents and discusses issues involved in developing an ecosystem approach for environmental radiation protection. This is an output that presents the results of discussions at a workshop held as part of the International Congress of Radiation Research (Environmental Health stream) in Manchester in 2019. This workshop aimed to provide a […]
A new research paper presents a unique, highly innovative and technically challenging earthquake engineering project that has provided vital evidence to underpin the seismic safety assessments of the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors. This is an output based on the long-standing collaborative research project between the University of Bristol, EDF and Atkins on plant-life extension of AGR […]
Professor Philip Thomas of the University of Bristol has provided written evidence to the UK Treasury Committee that is assessing the economic impact of coronavirus. Professor Thomas, Professor of Risk Management, has evaluated options available to national governments to combat the COVID-19 pandemic using the J value method, previously applied to mass evacuation scenarios. The […]
The DISTINCTIVE consortium, focused on nuclear decommissioning and waste management, has won a Royal Society for Chemistry award for industry-academia collaboration. This EPSRC-funded consortium, led by the University of Leeds, was set up to deliver research that addressed challenges associated with the continuing safe storage and disposal of radioactive legacy nuclear waste. The University of […]
A collaborative project has developed radiation detection systems that can be built into industry standard entrance control systems, supporting the prevention of illegal radioactive material transportation. Project Gatekeeper, a collaborative research project between the University of Bristol, AWE, Royal Mail and Gunnebo aimed to be able to detect radioactive materials potentially carried by individuals as […]
