Tom Greatrex, CEO of NIA will host “Realising innovation for future nuclear” webinar.
Speakers include
Matt Thomas, Chief Engineer for Power & Energy Sector at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)
Tim Allmark, Head of Advanced Nuclear Technology at the Office for Nuclear Regulation
Heather Lewtas, UK Atomic Energy Authority
Steve Lawler Business Manager – New Build & Fusion, Frazer Nash Consultancy.
Registration is via the Nuclear Industry Association website.
Event pageEach year the Fusion Centre for Doctoral Training collaborates with UK Atomic Energy Authority to organise a fusion Postgraduate student recruitment open day at Culham, serving all interested UK universities.
The day will include:
There is a registration form for this event via this link:
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Culham Science Centre combines world-class publicly funded research into fusion power; commercial technology organisations and Culham Innovation Centre, to create a powerhouse of high technology innovation and enterprise in South Oxfordshire.
Culham Science Centre, owned and managed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, is sited in one of the most successful science locations in the country and is a partner in Science Vale UK, along with other public and private sector organisations in the area, to promote southern Oxfordshire as a global hot spot for enterprise and innovation in science, high technology and the application of knowledge.
Culham Science Centre has an exciting future, browse through our pages and see what you could be part of.
Tokamak Energy is aiming to change the way the world generates power by developing a scalable fusion solution that will give the world an attractive new base-load power source that is plentiful, safe, cost effective, secure and clean. Their target is to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion as an energy source by 2030. Rob Slade, Director of Technology Development, will give a talk on the ST-F1 with a focus on the high temperature superconducting magnet technology.
After receiving a degree in Physics from Bristol University in 1986, Rob started work at Rolls Royce developing gas turbine instrumentation. An interest in electromagnetics led to employment at Oxford Instruments developing downhole NMR instruments using permanent magnets, then high field NMR using superconducting magnets and dynamic nuclear hyperpolarization methods.
After a spell a Siemens Magnet Technology developing whole body MRI, he moved to New Zealand where he developed an extremity MRI scanner using High Temperature Superconducting coil technology. In 2016 he returned to the UK to develop HTS magnet technology for plasma confinement in fusion devices.
Registration and hosting of the webinar is via the Institute of Physics.
Event pageThe UK Government has recently announced a £40m investment to bring forward next generation nuclear energy technology. These “Advanced Modular Reactors” (AMRs) have the potential to unlock new applications for nuclear technology in the carbon-neutral economy of the future – going beyond grid electricity to include the supply of heat, production of Hydrogen, power to communities and industries in remote parts of the world and supporting intermittent renewable supply by storing energy.
In this series of Webinars we will hear from the companies developing the technology – the three projects selected for BEIS funding and Moltex Energy who are forging ahead with first deployment in Canada.
You can register for the other webinars in this series via our events listing: southwestnuclearhub.ac.uk/events
The Nuclear Industry Association are hosting a webinar with Nuclear AMRC, UKAEA, IDOM and EGB Engineering to help members gain a better understanding of the new UKAEA facility which is currently being constructed at Rotherham next to the Nuclear AMRC building as well as challenges in manufacturing in fusion.
Hosted by Tom Greatrex, NIA
Registration is via the Nuclear Industry Association website.
Event pageIDOM has been contracted by UKAEA to develop a novel breeder blanket design concept to be used in the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) Fusion Power Plant. The STEP programme aims at accelerating the delivery of sustainable fusion energy thus, IDOM’s task was to develop an innovative conceptual design for a breeder blanket that is overcoming the various challenges facing the existing breeder blankets’ designs.
In this webinar, the speakers will give an overview of IDOM capabilities and experience in Fusion Energy, introduce the breeder blanket technology and working principals. Then, the speakers will talk more specifically about their recent experience and involvement in the STEP project explaining the methodology adopted to develop the breeder blanket conceptual design proposal for the STEP programme.
Credit: EUROfusion
This methodology involved conducting a series of analyses on different breeder blanket designs covering the material properties and their compatibility, the design configuration, the neutronics analysis, the thermal-hydraulics analysis, a preliminary structural analysis, safety aspects, and waste segregation and disposal. These analyses were conducted to identify the design features and constraints of each of those designs and to understand the challenges facing them to be able to come up with an innovative conceptual design proposal that combines the advantages and overcomes the challenges.
Francisco Calvo -Project Manager in IDOM's Nuclear Department, mainly working on projects related to advanced mechanical design and computational analysis.
Sergio Sádaba - Technical Specialist in IDOM's Nuclear Department responsible for design-by-analysis in thermo-mechanical components.
Jorge Fradera - Nuclear Engineer at IDOM. He is a senior nuclear analyst, tritium expert, CFD specialist, scientific applications programmer and fusion technology developer.
Please register via the Institute of Physics.
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IDOM were recently announced as one of nine companies who will work on the UKAEA’s Engineering Design Services Framework for the STEP programme. Hub members IDOM will be part of a four-year-long Engineering Design Services Framework along with eight other companies. Other companies in the Framework are Assystem, DBD, Rolls-Royce, Jacobs, Frazer Nash, Atkins, Mott MacDonald, and […]
Several members of the South West Nuclear Hub have been awarded significant funding for four National Nuclear User Facility bids covering robotics, microscopy, radiochemistry and materials research. The National Nuclear User Facility (NNUF) was launched when HM Government’s announced its Nuclear Industrial Strategy in 2013. The aim of the NNUF is to provide the UK […]
The UK Government has committed £220m funding for the design of a fusion power station, putting the UK at the forefront of developing nuclear fusion as a viable energy source.
Potentially a clean and abundant source of low carbon energy, fusion presents some unique challenges.
This event will explore some of these challenges and the technologies that are being developed to support the coming nuclear fusion industry.
Gain an understanding of the UK fusion programme in the context of the global push for fusion energy.
The materials that a fusion power plant will be composed of have very interesting requirements. For example, the components that face the 150 million degree plasma must endure its heat and hitherto unknown radiation loads. Jason will explore why designing these ‘plasma facing components’ is so challenging.
After an operational history of over twenty years carrying out remote maintenance of JET, the UKAEA is facing a series of challenges to maintain its current capabilities, as well as multiple opportunities to share its unrivalled expertise with both domestic and international partners. Iain will describe some of these challenges and how they are informing upcoming upgrade and maintenance campaigns, and the development of new remote handling technologies.
Tritium handling in a fusion power plant poses significant challenges. Large amounts of tritium and tritiated materials have to be transferred and processed continuously and efficiently. Technologies from breeding tritium, through separating tritiated gases, to gaining back tritium from tritiated water have to be advanced. These involve significant amount of research on properties of materials in contact with tritium, changing known processes and developing new ones. The interaction of tritium with components will influence the design of most reactor elements.
Venue: Pugsley Lecture Theatre, Queen’s Building, University of Bristol
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Dr Mahmoud Mostafavi of the University of Bristol has been awarded a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship. He will investigate High Temperature Fusion Engineering in this five-year position co-sponsored by the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Dr Mostafavi is one of six academics to win this funding which aims to strengthen […]
The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy is hosting an Open Day where you can:
Register http://www.culhamphd.org.uk/
Full programme: Programme 2018 PhD Open Day
Culham Science Centre combines world-class publicly funded research into fusion power; commercial technology organisations and Culham Innovation Centre, to create a powerhouse of high technology innovation and enterprise in South Oxfordshire.
Culham Science Centre, owned and managed by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, is sited in one of the most successful science locations in the country and is a partner in Science Vale UK, along with other public and private sector organisations in the area, to promote southern Oxfordshire as a global hot spot for enterprise and innovation in science, high technology and the application of knowledge.
Culham Science Centre has an exciting future, browse through our pages and see what you could be part of.
