UKAEA / EPSRC Fusion Grant 2022/27
Lead Research Organisation:
CCFE/UKAEA
Department Name: Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
Abstract
As energy demand increases and the impacts of climate change worsen, fusion offers the prospect of abundant, agile, low-carbon, baseload supply. During the next five years, fusion reaches a defining period. ITER - a ~20BnEuro megaproject that will demonstrate fusion is possible on a commercial scale - begins operation, whilst JET - for forty years the world's premier fusion facility - ceases operation. In parallel, governments and private investors are funding fusion powerplant design driven by the imperative to address climate change. The UK government stated that the UK has a 'moral responsibility to lead on climate change', having legislated to deliver 'net-zero' greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, committing to "doubling down on our ambition to be the first country to commercialise fusion energy technology" by establishing the STEP programme to build a prototype compact powerplant by 2040. The UK has also associated to the Euratom Research programme, remaining a full participant in ITER and the EUROfusion DEMO programme, the world's largest powerplant design effort, targeting fusion electricity 20 years after ITER begins high power operations. Whilst STEP and DEMO are comprehensive powerplant design programmes, there are considerable technical uncertainties without known solutions that must be overcome in parallel. This proposal will address these science and technology challenges, innovating to make designs easier and cheaper, reducing uncertainties in design, working with world-leaders from other sectors to exploit digital design methods that accommodate inherent uncertainty, and developing powerful new models based on fundamental theoretical developments. This differs from normal development paths - where the underlying science is resolved before the design proceeds or where small-scale demonstrators are possible - and thus presents very deep challenges: How can robust choices be made in the face of considerable uncertainty? How do we bridge the gaps between feasible experiments and the environment inside a powerplant, when empirical demonstrations are too slow and costly? How do we proceed without experimentally substantiated solutions in each discipline of an integrated design? This programme will confront these questions with multi-disciplinary research and innovation that builds on the UK's unique breadth of capability in fusion, targeting fundamental advances in the most demanding technical challenges:
a) The confinement of a fuel at 150 million degrees over long timescales - we will lead the final high-power experiments in JET for ITER;
b) The exhaust of excess heat at levels well above those experienced by a re-entrant spacecraft - we will test a novel exhaust solution on MAST Upgrade and develop new high-performance models to bridge the gap from MAST-U to a powerplant;
c) The resilience of materials which will surround the most intense neutron source on Earth - our Materials Research Facility will enable examination of irradiated materials properties to test and develop world-leading models of materials behaviour;
d) The ability to design, manufacture and qualify fusion components without a full demonstrator plant - with industry, this programme will target new advanced manufacturing techniques and testing capabilities in our new Fusion Technology Facilities;
e) A solution to breed, extract, use and recycle the necessary inventory of tritium with minimal loss and accurate accounting - the new H3AT facility will enable development and demonstration of tritium systems at a representative scale;
f) The requisite availability to produce a viable cost of electricity - we will develop novel maintenance solutions for powerplants in our RACE facility; and,
g) The ability to design a power plant fully 'in silico' in lieu of empirical demonstration - a growing advanced computing programme will allow us to exploit the benefits of exascale computing to bridge the gap from today's physics to tomorrows powerplants
a) The confinement of a fuel at 150 million degrees over long timescales - we will lead the final high-power experiments in JET for ITER;
b) The exhaust of excess heat at levels well above those experienced by a re-entrant spacecraft - we will test a novel exhaust solution on MAST Upgrade and develop new high-performance models to bridge the gap from MAST-U to a powerplant;
c) The resilience of materials which will surround the most intense neutron source on Earth - our Materials Research Facility will enable examination of irradiated materials properties to test and develop world-leading models of materials behaviour;
d) The ability to design, manufacture and qualify fusion components without a full demonstrator plant - with industry, this programme will target new advanced manufacturing techniques and testing capabilities in our new Fusion Technology Facilities;
e) A solution to breed, extract, use and recycle the necessary inventory of tritium with minimal loss and accurate accounting - the new H3AT facility will enable development and demonstration of tritium systems at a representative scale;
f) The requisite availability to produce a viable cost of electricity - we will develop novel maintenance solutions for powerplants in our RACE facility; and,
g) The ability to design a power plant fully 'in silico' in lieu of empirical demonstration - a growing advanced computing programme will allow us to exploit the benefits of exascale computing to bridge the gap from today's physics to tomorrows powerplants
Organisations
- CCFE/UKAEA (Lead Research Organisation)
- Lodestar Research Corporation (Collaboration)
- EUROfusion (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF READING (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- Lucideon (Collaboration)
- National Nuclear Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Lappeenranta University of Technology (Collaboration)
- University of Kyoto (Collaboration)
- Rolls Royce Group Plc (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- National Composites Centre (NCC) (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Southwestern Institute of Physics (Collaboration)
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) (Collaboration)
- University of California, Irvine (Collaboration)
- BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON (Collaboration)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Huddersfield (Collaboration)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (Collaboration)
- Columbia University (Collaboration)
- Uppsala University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- McGill University (Collaboration)
- Archer Tehnicoat Ltd (Collaboration)
- General Atomics (Collaboration)
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Princeton University (Collaboration)
- University of Rochester (Collaboration)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (Collaboration)
- BANGOR UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- College of William & Mary (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- Science & Technology Facilities Council (Project Partner)
- ITER (Project Partner)
- Princeton University (Project Partner)
- Fusion for Energy (Project Partner)
- Swansea University (Project Partner)
- University of Oxford (Project Partner)
- Lancaster University (Project Partner)
- University of York (Project Partner)
- Henry Royce Institute (Project Partner)
- University of Cambridge (Project Partner)
Publications
Adame E
(2022)
Qualification & testing of joining development for DEMO limiter component
in Fusion Engineering and Design
Adkins T
(2022)
Electromagnetic instabilities and plasma turbulence driven by electron-temperature gradient
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Akowua K
(2023)
Review and down-selection of NDE technologies suitable for ITER cooling water system remote weld inspections
in Fusion Engineering and Design
Alvarado A
(2023)
Predicting short-range order evolution in WTaCrVHf refractory high-entropy alloys
in Scripta Materialia
Amjad K
(2023)
Quantitative Comparisons of Volumetric Datasets From Experiments and Computational Models
in IEEE Access
Anand H
(2022)
Validation of the strike point position estimation with the local expansion method for MAST upgrade on the DIII-D tokamak
in Fusion Engineering and Design
Bailey GW
(2023)
Development of BNBSL: A ß-? spectra library for spectrometry applications.
in Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine
Balboa I
(2023)
Remote infrared view of JET divertor compatible with D-T operations
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Balboa I
(2023)
Remote wide angle view broad wavelength viewing system compatible with D-T operations in JET
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Bardsley O
(2024)
Decoupled magnetic control of spherical tokamak divertors via vacuum harmonic constraints
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
| Description | Across 6 disciplinary areas, the first year of the five year award has produced a multitude of discoveries: • Tokamak Science • A new physics campaign on the MAST-U tokamak delivered the first ever 1 MegaAmp plasma scenario for this device, exceeding the previous record of 3.2 MegaWatt neutral beam injected power. New stored energy record is 110 kiloJoule. • The campaign has demonstrated that the MAST-U divertor neutral pressure is hundreds of times higher than in the main plasma chamber, confirming the success of the novel divertor design. • 40 synopses were submitted for consideration for the Fusion Energy Conference (UK, 2023), with many covering the recent JET world-record energy production outcomes of recent months. • Advanced Computing • A prototype platform for interfacing MAST-U tokamak processing protocols with UKRI National e-Infrastructure has been started: A server and database have been installed on the CSD3 supercomputing system (Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery), thus connecting UKAEA's Culham systems for high fidelity, high throughput analysis. The database has been populated with test data from the MAST-U tokamak and tests are underway using a tokamak-specific plasma heat transfer code (TRANSP). Work on ADIOS (Adaptable IO System - a way of describing scientific code data outside of the original application) will continue in coming months, using a large tranche of MAST-U data, to test transfer routines and scheduler codes. • A new finite element exterior calculus method is partially developed to ensure Partial Derivative Equations are transferred more exactly and with greater numerical stability in discrete representations. • A theorem has been developed to compute elastic stress and strain accumulating in materials from radiation defects. The maths proves it is possible to find an explicit expression for the volume of an arbitrarily complex network of interconnecting defect (atomic dislocation) lines. • Over 4000 samples were used to create a surrogate model of a thermal desorption simulation for tritium permeation in fusion powerplant materials. The model can be regenerated with more input parameters as required. • Tritium Science • A patent has been developed for extracting tritium from liquid metal (e.g. lead lithium) or molten salt (e.g. FliBe) breeder systems using two systems synergistically: a liquid-to-gas transfer mechanism and permeation-to-a-membrane-or-vacuum-chamber. • A new mass transfer model for Gas Liquid Contactors has been developed with mass transfer coefficients measured (ready for scale up in powerplants) and experimental uncertainties quantified (critical for powerplant technology selection) • Materials Science • Three new methods for fabricating silicon carbide composites have been trialled via chemical vapour and liquid infiltration and polymer pyrolsis to achieve higher densities than commercially currently available. The resulting materials have been irradiated with ions, and implanted with fusion-relevant gases (helium) to simulate high temperature evolution in service. Results suggest hardness and elasticity are less affected than first anticipated and stronger (neutron) irradiations are now in play. • Modified ferritic-martensitic alloys have been modified for both composition (to reduce activation) and mechanical resilience under irradiation (via novel thermomechanical treatment). First attempts to introduce irradiation defect sink phases proved unsustainable after the latter reacted under ion irradiations at Surrey Ion Beam Centre. • Simulations on neutron single cross section library TENDL19, using different isotope decay data (in contrast to the traditional approach to use decay data from the same library) concluded that the traditional approach may underestimate divergence between model and simulation of decay heat, with impact to real engineered structures thermal stability. • A new Chair in Fusion Materials was created at both University of Sheffield and University of Birmingham • Robotics • Rail-based robotic maintenance solutions were analysed for DEMO, CFETR and ITER to inform a component handling solution within non-uniform geometries in stellarators. • A two-port remote handling approach was developed for blanket handling in large port tokamaks, including development of upper and lower port remote maintenance equipment. • High power in-bore laser cutting and welding trials have been completed for in service remote joining. • An offline model-based trajectory optimisation control technique has been experimentally validated using a UR10e robot to precisely manoeuvre a simple but flexible payload. • Technology • A preliminary design has been completed for a desktop magnetohydrodynamic experimental system. • First samples of complex cooling channels in CuCrZr and steels (which will enable advanced and reduced-cost blanket/divertors) were characterised with X-Rays and showed that serpentine channels are uniform in dimension and surface roughness throughout. • Towards evaluation of complex materials testing (varying stress, strain, and temperature states) with digital image correlation, a simulated DIC analysis was carried out and uncertainties in the filtering process used for image correlation quantified. • A new Chair in Qualification for Fusion was created at the University of Sheffield • Multidisciplinary • Technology-Materials: A workshop evaluation of the primary life-limiting mechanism for advanced steels in breeding applications identified creep-fatigue damage accumulation in an irradiation-embrittled material. Utilising small batch fabrication of an oxide-dispersion strengthened (ODS) steel, work is underway to develop minimum baseline testing requirements under a conventional qualification programme, for creep-fatigue. |
| Exploitation Route | • One year into the five year award, the progress above amply demonstrates progress towards key objectives to i) support ITER via high-performance JET D-T fusion plasmas and plasma wall post mortems, ii) to undertake fundamental power plant relevant science and technology with simulated engineering and virtual component qualification, robotic service solutions, AI plasma surrogate models and plant simulations, development of high temperature structural materials, and iii) to reduce margin and cost while improving performance in future fusion powerplants via utilisation of the MAST-U tokamak to develop viable plasma confinement / exhaust scenarios; development of fuel cycle accounting and fuel separation methods; development of novel joining techniques and radhard robotics. • The European Community is designing a demonstration powerplant (EU-DEMO) for 2050 and will extensively use outcomes from the UKAEA EPSRC award work, where matched by EUROfusion funding, to plan plasma operations, component maintenance, diagnostic specifications, waste strategies etc. In the first 2 years of the EPSRC award, there are already 373 EUROfusion tasks underway, with 19 completed tasks to date. Tasks range from integration of test rigs into the Active Gas Handling System for JET to proto-typical Mock Up designs for water cooled lithium lead blanket representation in UKAEA's multiload rig, CHIMERA. • Early examples of technology translation, industry priming and adjacent sector opportunities are cited in the Narrative Impact section. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Construction Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Electronics Energy Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/clean-plasma-demonstration-boosts-iter-and-future-powerplantshttps://www.gov.uk/government/news/ukaea-and-university-of-sheffield-partnership-to-drive-fusion-technology |
| Description | Late 2021, the UK Government launched a UK Fusion Strategy (Towards fusion energy: the UK government's fusion strategy (publishing.service.gov.uk), committing the UK to development of an engineering demonstration of fusion power. In parallel with the creation of a tokamak-based powerplant prototype, the strategy requires development of an economic system of suppliers, integrators and operators such that commercialisation of the prototype becomes feasible. Much of the output steadily accruing from this new (5 year) UK Fusion Programme Grant will directly feed this economic system. In this first year of the EPSRC award, technical outreach in materials science primed local coatings, joining/welding and composites suppliers so that they were able to respond to a Fusion Industry Programme call and achieve approximately £1.8m of R&D funding as a nascent fusion supply chain. Robotics advancements relevant to nuclear decommissioning have brought in multimillion pound Japanese investment and triggered a regional collaboration between UKAEA, the NDA and Sellafield Ltd. in Cumbria worth £28m over its programme life. Tritium science outputs in the past year have attracted four industry partnerships covering product and service development from analytics to active gas handling systems. In addition to the local industrial translation and inward investment, the Grant also lifts UK's international credibility in fusion - a £4bn global industry at this moment: latest plasma power and heat exhaust results from the MAST-U tokamak at Culham have underpinned over a dozen collaborations triggered with the USA (to value of ~$10m). These bilateral partnerships bring access to US plasma codes and senior US fusion scientists as well as secondees to the Uk without cost. Ongoing lack of clarity in respect of the UK's Association with Euratom have made EUROfusion matched funding work difficult for the Grant researchers, but in contrast, relationships with UK academia have strengthened considerably through the recent appointment of 3 fusion-dedicated Chairs. • Intellectual Property from recent EPSRC award work has been submitted for patent protection and includes the following (with more innovations being assessed through the invention disclosure process): • In-pipe cutting, inspection and welding tool GB1 2564120 • Cortex Interoperable Robotics Framework EP1 21157352.1 • Innovative integration of tritium extraction and recovery system GB1 2212453.1 • Composite ceramics for shielding- filed and being prosecuted The potential for impact comes not only from the protected IP but the expertise and capabilities that have been built up that can be applied to challenges in other sectors. • One year into the five year award: • The latest MAST-U results have been utilised to build new and lucrative collaborations between the UK and USA in fusion (14 active collaborations worth ~$10m now in play with the Dept of Energy in the States) bringing access to US plasma codes, numerical expertise, engagement with senior US fusion scientists and 4 postdocs + diagnostics to MAST-U without cost to UK. • Work done in Materials development has primed local industry such that twelve respondents to a Fusion Industry Programme call achieved ~£1.8m of R&D funding for the coming year. • Results in Robotics, relevant to nuclear decommissioning, have brought in Japanese investment via the TEPCO partnership (£4m+ to date) and regional uplift in Cumbria with the new RAICo - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence - Collaboration alongside the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Limited (£28m). There is a greater than 50% spend with industry in these programmes and enhanced links to the East (e.g. South Korea). • Research in the tritium areas has spawned two industrial partnerships each, on development of technologies for tritium analytics and development of tritium gas handling systems respectively. Delivery of the DELPHI (deuterium ion implantation) system in the past 12 months of the award has enabled work for a USA fusion commercial company and more locally, the AWE. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Energy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Contributed as key expert to GO-Science Fusion Rapid Technology Assessment |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | 101061241 |
| Amount | € 155,400 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101061241 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Title | BNBSL beta spectral data |
| Description | Library of beta, neutrino and bremsstrahlung spectra for nuclear analysis applications |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | A paper was written to introduce the dataset to the community. |
| Title | SINBAD experimental shielding benchmark database contributions |
| Description | UKAEA contributions to the compilation of the international database of shielding experimental benchmarks, SINBAD - Shielding integral benchmark archive and database. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | SINBAD has been used to validate computer codes and nuclear data for transport applications in nuclear reactor engineering and research. The database also supports the education and training of nuclear simulation physicists. In 2022 the database was updated with contributions from new organisations as well as improvements to the database structure. The database was widely used for nuclear data validation. |
| URL | https://www.oecd-nea.org/science/wprs/shielding/sinbad/sinbadis.htm |
| Title | Validating the simulation of beam-ion charge exchange in MAST Upgrade |
| Description | The data that support the findings of the scientific article: P. Ollus et al. (2023) "Validating the simulation of beam-ion charge exchange in MAST Upgrade ", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opendata.ukaea.uk/doi/?id=sdz4-gv05&br=2023 |
| Title | Validating the simulation of beam-ion charge exchange in MAST Upgrade |
| Description | The data that support the findings of the scientific article: P. Ollus et al. (2023) "Validating the simulation of beam-ion charge exchange in MAST Upgrade", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10207686 |
| Description | A radiation inversion algorithm for adaptive path planning of robotic systems in high-dose Fusion environments |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote maintenance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Ab-initio based modelling TDS for deuteriun retention in irradiated bcc-Mo |
| Organisation | McGill University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Understanding of hydrogen isotope retention in Mo |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided experimental data |
| Impact | Predictive modelling and experimental validation of TDS |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Ab-initio based modelling TDS for deuteriun retention in irradiated bcc-Mo |
| Organisation | McGill University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Understanding of hydrogen isotope retention in Mo |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided experimental data |
| Impact | Predictive modelling and experimental validation of TDS |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Assurance of fault tolerance in safety-critical multi-robot systems |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Department | York Plasma Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Benchmarking of FENDL3.2a cross sections and covariances |
| Organisation | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Verification and validation, processing code developments |
| Collaborator Contribution | FENDL-3.2 nuclear data library, processing code developments |
| Impact | Paper (ND Sheets) |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Brunel University, co-funded PhD project on Condition Monitoring for Remote Maitenance. Industrial supervisor. |
| Organisation | Brunel University London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supervision, contributions of data and access to facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | PhD project, design and execution of experiments. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Collaboration Framework |
| Organisation | Canadian Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration Framework Agreement signed between UKAEA and CNL, to cover a number of topics around the Fusion Fuel Cycle. The first collaboration project under the agreement has been kicked-off, looking at the adsorption of tritium in materials. UKAEA will provide samples to CNL for testing, as well as testing the CNL proprietary adsorption catalyst to provide independent verification of the results. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CNL will soak UKAEA sourced materials, followed by characterisation measurements to determine the isotope exchange and tritium retention of the material. |
| Impact | NA |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Oxford Robotcis Institute (Industrial supervisor for Michal Staniaszek at ORI) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supervision of PhD student, access to facilities, hardware, data, expertise |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design and execution of experiments, PhD research |
| Impact | In progress |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Oxford Robotics Institute to improve the frontier system for spot deployment |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of hardware and/or software for Frontier system for SLAM and Autonomy |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of hardware and/or software for Frontier system for SLAM and Autonomy |
| Impact | Significant further collaboration, PhDs, joint funding applications |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Strathclyde (PhD programme on 'High temperature laser induced ultrasound phase array nondestructive inspection for nuclear fusion components') |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of samples and use cases, expert guidance and supervision |
| Collaborator Contribution | Studies and technology development, experimental design and execution |
| Impact | Publications - reported separately. Established feasibility of LASER UT in fusion pipe problems. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Surrey on Modelling gamma spectra from DT reactions |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA provided requirements and motivation of need to understand gamma emission probabilities from DT reactions as a potential fusion plasma diagnostic. UKAEA team worked with Surrey team to develop models and theory. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Surrey team brought the expertise in the theoretical understanding of excitation levels and decay processes that lead to gamma emissions. |
| Impact | Journal paper written to present new model. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration with university of Bristol on the development of neutron sources |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | In-kind contribution to the analysis of deuteron-irradiated samples in support of their deployment as a flux-boost mechanism for neutron sources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner is developing the novel neutron source technology. |
| Impact | none as yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | College of William and Mary |
| Organisation | College of William & Mary |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collecting data on particle transport in MAST Upgrade and supporting data analysis and the stability of the edge pedestal, performing dedicated experiments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Understanding particle balance and the stability of the edge pedestal in MAST Upgrade |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Condition monitoring in nuclear fusion remote maintenance |
| Organisation | Lappeenranta University of Technology |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Control of a Robotic Arm with Joint/Link Elasticity |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through RACE studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Degradation of thermal and mechanical properties of SiCf/SiC composites under fusion conditions |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded via UKAEA EPSRC programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supervisor / PhD |
| Impact | Understanding of SiCSiC performance in fusion environment. Papers x4 planned |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Design and development of autonomous micro drones for inspection and maintenance in nuclear environments |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Design for Robot Accessibility |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through RACE studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Development of low-activation multicomponent alloys for fusion armour applications |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded via UKAEA EPSRC programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supervisor / PhD |
| Impact | New armour material candidates. Papers x4 planned |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Diamond Devices for extreme applications |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | £15k in-kind researcher time and workhall access |
| Collaborator Contribution | Researcher effort, remaining funding (from EPSRC) |
| Impact | Development of radiation-hard diamond power electronics |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Diamond Electronics in Robotics |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | EUROfusion Campaign participation-JET, MAST-U, WEST and TCV |
| Organisation | EUROfusion |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Use of expertise from UKAEA on EUROfusion funded scientific experiments on JET, MAST-U, WEST and TCV |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing of expertise, access to data from other machines |
| Impact | Publications, PhD thesis, invitations to high profile conferences to give oral presentations |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Effects of annealing on helium defects in silicon carbide |
| Organisation | University of Huddersfield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Staff time and MRF equipment |
| Collaborator Contribution | TEM experiments |
| Impact | Images of radiation damage and annealing in ion irradiated SIC |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Enabling Drone Inspection of Future Fusion Facilities |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through RACE studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Finite element modelling of the corrosion of stainless steels/CuCrZr for cooling systems |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Industrial supervisor & experimental data provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 100% funding, Academic supervision |
| Impact | Advancing corrosion modelling capability |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Fusion grades SiC |
| Organisation | University of Kyoto |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Staff time |
| Collaborator Contribution | N/A |
| Impact | None |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Gas production measurements in neutron irradiated materials. |
| Organisation | Uppsala University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint undertaking of gas production measurements at the GANIL accelerator in France. Planning and participation in experiments to measure gas production cross sections. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Jointly planning and participating in experiments. |
| Impact | none yet, put targeting journal publications presenting results. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | General Atomics |
| Organisation | General Atomics |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Upgraded MAST-U plasma control system to the latest version supplied by General Atomics, installing the General Atomics plasma modelling and control framework and supporting visits. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supporting the development of plasma control on MAST Upgrade and understanding of pedestal physics and plasma exhaust |
| Impact | Papers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379622000862 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/abe804 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | IAEA: CRP towards the standardisation of SSTT |
| Organisation | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| Country | Austria |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Small-scale tensile test of Eu97, T91 and F82H (SSJ3 geometry) at room temperature and 300C. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Round robin measurements and methods shared between 7 international partners |
| Impact | Standardisation of small-scale mechanical tests, input to new standards which are validated on small test specimens |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Institute for Fusion Studies |
| Organisation | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating on simulations of alternative divertor configurations on MAST Upgrade and supporting the team to prepare journal publications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supporting the development of predictive models of plasma exhaust in alternative divertor configurations on MAST-U |
| Impact | https://science.energy.gov/~/media/grants/pdf/foas/2017/SC_FOA_0001784.pdf |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Organisation | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Designed, installed and are operating divertor diagnostics on loan from Livermore. Performing experiments to study snowflake and X-point target divertor configurations on MAST Upgrade and supporting data analysis and modelling. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Loaned divertor spectroscopy diagnostics for use on MAST Upgrade and performing simulations comparing relative benefits of different conventional and alternative divertor configurations |
| Impact | Papers: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179120301575 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ac3364 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Li LM testing |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Test materials |
| Collaborator Contribution | None |
| Impact | None |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Lithium-impurities reactions |
| Organisation | Bangor University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Financial contribution, scourcing of materials, staff time |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sourcing of experimental rig and materials, staff time, access of materials characterisation facilities |
| Impact | Objective: understanding of phase formation and kinetics of Li-impurties interactions |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Lodestar |
| Organisation | Lodestar Research Corporation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Supporting simulations of turbulent transport by providing data from MAST and MAST Upgrade experiments and the writing of publications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Predicting turbulent transport in MAST and MAST Upgrade |
| Impact | Papers:https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0060524 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Long Term Visual Inspection of ex-vessel Fusion infrastructure using Anomaly and Change Detection |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | MASCOT Operator Task Prediction via Body Tracking |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co-funding a PhD student to develop a novel Langmuir probe diagnostic, collecting data on particle transport in MAST Upgrade and supporting data analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supporting the development of novel Langmuir probe diagnostics and understanding particle balance in MAST Upgrade |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Mesoscle finite element phase field modelling fo liquid lithium embrittlement of steels |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded; Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Advancing corrosion modelling capability; especially on Li embrittlement |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Mission Planning for Long-Term Multi-Objective Remote Inspection |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through RACE studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Multi-scale Semi-autonomous Teleoperation For Nuclear Fusion |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Multipoint sensors for extreme environments |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | £10k in-kind researcher time for testing integration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Researcher effort, remaining funding (from EPSRC) |
| Impact | Development of sapphire fibre Fibre-Bragg gratings for sensing of temperature and strain in extreme environments |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Organisation | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Installation of bolometer diagnostics on MAST Upgrade, performing dedicated experiments to study power balance |
| Collaborator Contribution | Developing and installing bolometer diagnostics on MAST Upgrade and analysis of the data collected |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Optimal cutting, grasping and packing of irregular-shaped tokamak waste components |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Performance evaluation for teleoperation |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through RACE studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| Organisation | Princeton University |
| Department | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Internal funding |
| Collaborator Contribution | Involvement in several aspects of the MAST Upgrade research programme including plasma scenario development, core confinement and energetic particle physics. |
| Impact | Papers:https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ac2b38 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab3bd5 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Production of silicon carbide composites using CVI |
| Organisation | Archer Tehnicoat Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Funding to produce composite panels |
| Collaborator Contribution | Manufacturing/support |
| Impact | Materials produced for subsequent testing, conference poster produced, pending publication in journal |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Radiation-aware robotic navigation and planning |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through RACE studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Real-time 3D Mapping of Radiation and Long-Term Change Detection in Nuclear Fusion Remote Maintenance |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research partnership with DSTL |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Recently commenced. Cory Hamelin in AMT is the point of contact for DMEx - see link below. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Recently commenced. |
| Impact | No outcome yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Robotic Guidance in unstructured Environments |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Robotic and Autonomous non prehensile manipulation of bulk solids |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 100% funded through RACE (part-time) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Rolls-Royce - UKAEA |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provided aerospace and nuclear grade SiCSiC for analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Manufacturing/support |
| Impact | Materials to be irradiated and analysed, expecting at least one resultant publication |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Secured a two-year project (Eurofusion Engineering Grant) to address one or more high priority areas of Fusion power development, "Co-operative robot handling of challenging payloads". |
| Organisation | EUROfusion |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Secured a two-year project (Eurofusion Engineering Grant) to address one or more high priority areas of Fusion power development, "Co-operative robot handling of challenging payloads". |
| Collaborator Contribution | Individual research fellowship contributing into the wider EUROfusion programme with broad collaboration and training opportunities within the consortium |
| Impact | Just initiated |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Self-ion irradiation of CVD coatings |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Samples & staff time |
| Collaborator Contribution | Beam time |
| Impact | Objective: understand the impact of radiation on coating adhesive strength |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Sensorimotor Optimisation of bimanual telerobotics for Fusion Remote Maintenance |
| Organisation | University of Reading |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through EUROfusion studentship, Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | SiC shape forming and manufacturing |
| Organisation | Lucideon |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Staff time |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time |
| Impact | None |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Silicon carbide composites (SiC/SiC) - UK Supply Chain |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Provided market information |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided information collection, report writing and project management |
| Impact | Report on SiC/SiC market needs, sector-specific material specifications and supply chain opportunities. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Silicon carbide composites (SiC/SiC) - UK Supply Chain |
| Organisation | National Composites Centre (NCC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provided market information |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided information collection, report writing and project management |
| Impact | Report on SiC/SiC market needs, sector-specific material specifications and supply chain opportunities. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Silicon carbide composites (SiC/SiC) - UK Supply Chain |
| Organisation | Rolls Royce Group Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provided market information |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided information collection, report writing and project management |
| Impact | Report on SiC/SiC market needs, sector-specific material specifications and supply chain opportunities. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Southwestern Institute of Physics |
| Organisation | Southwestern Institute of Physics |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Installation of the Doppler backscattering system developed by SWIP |
| Collaborator Contribution | SWIP have designed and delivered a Doppler Backscattering diagnostic to probe density turbulence in the edge of MAST Upgrade plasmas. There are future plans to develop and install a supersonic molecular beam injector for MAST-U. |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Thermal transient effects in first wall & breeder blanket components |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through CCFE studentship |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supervisor / PhD |
| Impact | Better understanding of mateirlas survivability at first wall. Papers x4 planned |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Two extended lab visits totalling 3 months at Rochester university |
| Organisation | University of Rochester |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA pays for travel and accomdation etc |
| Collaborator Contribution | Training time and staff supervision time |
| Impact | Learn from prominent tritium research lab, establish better links |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | UKAEA (AMT) - National Nuclear Laboratory collaboration |
| Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Joint research on small specimen testing techniques (SSTT) to obtain material properties of fusion and fission relevant materials including interpretation of experimental data. Co-supervision of a PhD student investigating SSTT. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint research on SSTT to obtain material properties of fusion and fission relevant materials. Co-supervision of a PhD student investigating SSTT. |
| Impact | Various journal papers and conference contributions. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding chemical reactions in liquid lithium containing coolants and the effects of impurities |
| Organisation | Bangor University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded; Industrial Supervisor provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | 50% funding, Academic Supervision |
| Impact | understanding of phase formation and kinetics of Li-impurties interactions |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Understanding synergistic interaction between irradiation and plasticity in nanostructured alloys |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 50/50 funded through CCFE studentship |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supervisor / PhD |
| Impact | Better understanding of synergistic irradiation/plasticity effects in complex materials. Papers x4 planned |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University College London (UCL) - UKAEA |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | To explore the feasibility of isotope separation using small-channel liquid exchange processes |
| Collaborator Contribution | in-kind contributions from UCL in the form of existing facilities, people resourcing, etc. |
| Impact | Objective is to assess the feasibility (volumes vs. time vs. cost) of using liquid flow exchange to separate isotopes of Li and/or transition metals. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Bristol - UKAEA |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | H3AT supplied raman equipment to study use for tritium accountancy |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lab and expertise |
| Impact | Develop capabilities and determine technology value |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of California, Irvine |
| Organisation | University of California, Irvine |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supporting the design, installation and operation of the solid state neutral particle analyser and analysis of the data collected. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributed a solid-state neutral particle analyser for MAST Upgrade |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Organisation | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Installation and operation of the Doppler backscattering system developed by UCLA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of a Doppler backscattering system on MAST Upgrade and the operation of the fast ion D-alpha diagnostic and data analysis |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Cambridge - UKAEA |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | H3AT supplied NMR equipment to study use for tritium accountancy |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lab and expertise |
| Impact | Develop capabilities in NMR and links with Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Columbia |
| Organisation | Columbia University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Providing data from MAST Upgrade experiments, sharing informaiton on the construction of the device and routine data analysis techniques |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supporting equilibrium reconstruction and estimating MHD stability limits on MAST Upgrade |
| Impact | Papers:https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab98e1 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5065390 |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Manchester (PhD programme) Industrial supervisor of Debra Bligh-Wall on Graphene-based end-effector sensors for teleoperated robotics in extreme nuclear environments |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supervision, access to data, expertise, facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design and execution of research studies. PhD Programme |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | University of Manchester - UKAEA |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Using machine learning to optimise blanket breeder geometries to maximise tritium production |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supervision of PhD wholly funded by Manchester chair in tritium. |
| Impact | Objective: demonstration that there are heterogeneous blanket designs with higher TBR than conventional designs |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Manchester - UKAEA |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | H3AT are sponsoring a chair position in tritium at Manchester university, to start summer 2022 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Match funding |
| Impact | Potential for huge expansion of UK's tritium expertise and output. Opportunity to form a strong collaboration to deliver high impact work on tritium. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Uppsala - UKAEA |
| Organisation | Uppsala University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | To measure gas production cross sections in Fe and Cr using time of flight spectroscopy. UKAEA motivated the experiment and are supporting the design and analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project supported financially by EUROFusion. |
| Impact | Objective: measurement of gas production cross section in Fe, Cr. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Uppsala University |
| Organisation | Uppsala University |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supporting the design, installation and operation of the neutron camera diagnostic and analysis of the data collected. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of a neutron camera diagnostic for MAST Upgrade |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Visual Anomaly Detection for Fusion inspection |
| Organisation | University of Surrey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 100% funded through RACE (part-time) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic Supervision |
| Impact | Remote mainteanance-relevant research progressed and knowledge gained |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Title | Improvements in and relating to isotope separation in a fusion power system |
| Description | There is described an apparatus 100 for separating hydrogen isotopes from exhaust gas of a fusion power system. A gas comprising a mixture of isotopes is received at an inlet 111 and evenly distributed between a plurality of conduits 130, each conduit 130 receiving substantially the same input of gas. Each conduit 130 comprises a composition, e.g. a stationary-phase of palladium-coated alumina, configured to change a flow rate of a first isotope of the mixture of isotopes through the plurality of conduits. The first isotope is thereby separated from the mixture of isotopes according to its flow rate through the plurality of conduits 130 and exits through an outlet 112. For example, the flow rate of tritium in the exhaust gas through the composition in the conduits may be arranged to be faster/slower than that of protium and deuterium. |
| IP Reference | GB2610262 |
| Protection | Patent / Patent application |
| Year Protection Granted | 2023 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | IP protection for a design, which allows to scale up gas chromatography based isotope separation technologies to power-plant scale fusion fuel cycle. No alternative design has been established to date. |
| Title | In-pipe cutting, inspection and welding tool |
| Description | A robotic device 100 for internal cutting, welding or inspection of internal walls of a pipe has a first end section 102, a second end section 104 and a central-section 106 located between the first 102 and second 104 end-sections. The first 102 and second 104 end sections each have clamping means 108 configured to be operable to clamp the respective first 102 and second 104 end sections to the internal surface of a pipe wall 150. The central section 106 has a rotatable tool portion 110 that is rotatable relative to the first 102 and second 104 end sections. A rotational drive means 112 generates a rotational drive to rotate the tool portion 110 relative to at least one of the first 102 and second 104 end sections. The device 100 has length control means 118 to adjust a length between the first and second end sections 102,104, in order to allow the device 100 to crawl along the pipe 150. The clamping means 108 may be balls which are moved radially to engage the pipe 150. The balls 108 may be adapted to engage recesses (256, Figure 2). The device 100 may also manipulate pipe segments (252, 254, figure 2) relative to each other. The device 100 may have an articulation joint (130, figure 5) comprising a ball-ended hexagon structure. Inflatable seals (160, figure 7) may be included to isolate a working space within the pipe 150. The space may be injected with an inert gas. |
| IP Reference | GB2564120 |
| Protection | Patent / Patent application |
| Year Protection Granted | 2019 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Impact within EUROfusion programme |
| Title | Development of a portable lidar-based device for 3D map scanning and localization |
| Description | Development of a portable lidar-based device for 3D map scanning and localization |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Impact to internal research programme. May publish. |
| Title | FISPACT-II v5 |
| Description | FISPACT-II is an inventory evolution code that predicts the change in material composition under exposure to particle (neutron) irradiation. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | FISPACT-II has a wide user base both nationally and internationally, used for fusion and fission reactor simulations, medical isotope application, astrophysics and environment studies. It is distributed by the NEA for research purposes and commercially by UKAEA directly. It provides new functionality compared to the previous releases including Application programming interface (API), bug fixes. |
| URL | http://fispact.ukaea.uk |
| Title | OpenData Register |
| Description | The UKAEA Open Data Register is an application to publish and cite Open Data. It is intended to make available high value research data and to facilitate data reuse. Data will be accessible via a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to provide a robust and persistent citation for publications. All researchers will be able to access data, subject to access control. The public will be able to access data that is subject to the open data policy albeit with an embargo period. The Open Data Register can be used to: register UKAEA owned data files and data visualisations register metadata with DataCite register a DOI with the British Library create a citation for authors to use in publications provide public access to the Open Data |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Citing data via DOIs has numerous benefits to UKAEA and researchers such as: promoting reproduction and reuse of data ensuring data is accessible and shareable increasing research efficiency and integrity enabling collaboration enhancing the visibility and impact of research. |
| URL | https://register.opendata.ukaea.uk/ |
| Title | PROCESS systems code |
| Description | PROCESS is a systems code at CCFE that calculates in a self-consistent manner the parameters of a fusion power plant with a specified performance, ensuring that its operating limits are not violated, and with the option to optimise to a given function of these parameters. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Open source as a leading systems code for power plant design. Code is being used at different organisations internationally as a leading systems code. A list of publications can be found at the link below. |
| URL | https://ukaea.github.io/PROCESS/publications/ |
| Description | A 4 lecture workshop at Oxford by P.-W. Ma. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | P.-W. Ma, A workshop of 4 lectures entitled "An Introduction to Atomistic Simulations of Materials" was delivered at Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford on 23 and 24 Feb 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | ATOM Market Place (June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Stand at local science festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advisory board Nuclear Engineering MSc, University of Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ongoing participation in the advisory board for the Nuclear engineering CDT at UOB. Engagement with academics allows for industry partners, and national lab partners (UKAEA) to steer direction of the course and participate in masters student projects, training and lectures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| Description | Attended SIN Global Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Provided UKAEA/Fusion & robotics interface to international science and innovation teams within BEIS/FCDO |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Audience with CEO of TEPCO, Tokyo, Japan, November 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness / information sharing Enhanced working relationships between UK and Japan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | BBC Radio broadcast: Demonstrated spot inspection mission to BBC presenter Evan Davis on BBC radio on 25th July 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Radio broadcast: Demonstrated spot inspection mission to BBC presenter Evan Davis on BBC radio on 25th July 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Baroness Bloomfield (June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Central Robotics and AI CoE Forum, September 2022, virtual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness / information sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Chris Bishop, Director Microsoft Research Cambridge (June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Collaboration Discussion with the Divertor Test Tokamak |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions to establish possible areas of interest where we could collaborate, further meetings have been planned |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration discussion at Birmingham University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | discussed the importance of modelling of radiation damage in RAMS using proton and neutron irradiation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration discussion at York Plasma Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Detailed discussion with senior academics from York and Strathclyde universities (Head of School at York, Kieran Gibson, Prof Kevin Ronald, Strathclyde). Purpose: to discuss the development of a research project to test isotope separation using linear plasma devices (such as the one at York). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration discussion with IPP, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | discussions leading to ISFF funding proposal on integrated experimental and modelling of tritium permeation and retention of coating interfaces between oxides and steels |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration discussion with Imperial College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on areas of common interest, leading to NEURONE proposal on modelling of interfaces between RAFM and carbides/nitrides precipitates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration discussion with LANL, USA on modelling of advanced W alloys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Designing and Development of new quinary W-based High-Entropy alloys with outstanding radiation resistance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration discussion with Lancaster University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on Modelling of radiation damage in superconducting magnet materials to understand future areas of collaborative work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration discussion with PNNL, USA on machine learning for tritium behaviour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Impact fund (SIN) application on modelling of Tritium behaviour between Li and metallic alloys including Vanadium alloys |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Edinburgh University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions held with theoreticians at Edinburgh University about possible future collaborations. 4 future masters project are in discussion with possibility of development into PhD collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Committee member for the International Tritium Roadmap Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Around 200 people from across the international community attended a workshop in Charlotte, USA to discuss the challenges and requirements to achieving a Tritium Fuel Cycle in 10 years in order to meet the USA's decadal fusion objective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | D. Mason Symposium 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Daniel Mason, Symposium co-organiser "Inference-based Approaches for Material Discovery and Property Optimisation" MS&T Pittsburgh, USA, October 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Energy Minister on 31rd August 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Alan Whitehead MP, Shadow Energy Minister on 31rd August 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to HM treasury director on 16th August 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to HM treasury director on 16th August 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Japanese Ministry of science on 31rd August 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Japanese Ministry of science on 31rd August 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Lee McDonough, DESNZ director general for fusion, and a group of DESNZ staff on 18th August 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Lee McDonough, DESNZ director general for fusion, and a group of DESNZ staff on 18th August 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) conference audience on 14th July 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated spot autonomous inspection mission to Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) conference audience on 14th July 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstration of work-in-progress of In-Situ Repair of Tokamak In-Vessel Components to DesNez Commercial Director on 29th November 2023 (Requester: Nick Sykes) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of work-in-progress of In-Situ Repair of Tokamak In-Vessel Components to DesNez Commercial Director on 29th November 2023 (Requester: Nick Sykes) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Demonstration of work-in-progress of In-Situ Repair of Tokamak In-Vessel Components to Dr Asmeret Berhe, director of Office of Science US Department of Energy on 7th February 2024 (Requester: Nick Sykes and Ian Chapman) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of work-in-progress of In-Situ Repair of Tokamak In-Vessel Components to Dr Asmeret Berhe, director of Office of Science US Department of Energy on 7th February 2024 (Requester: Nick Sykes and Ian Chapman) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | EC3 Maintenance robotics for nuclear fusion: Taking electronics where no-one can go at all |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EC3 Maintenance robotics for nuclear fusion: Taking electronics where no-one can go at all Emil Jonasson |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | EPSRC Net Zero showcase, Glasgow (June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Stand at event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engaged with the government developing a medical isotope research call |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Advised the government about a medical isotope production call |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Expert Group on AI in Nuclear, July 2022, Culham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness / information sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | FISPACT-II training workshops through OECD/NEA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increased user base of UKAEA-developed, EPSRC-funded code system |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 |
| Description | Feedback Session: Shaping the National Service Robotics Proving Ground Facilities, February 2022, virtual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Feedback session Hear the latest findings of our UK robotics test facilities interviews which explore what facilities already exist as well as the needs of robotics developers and end-users to identify gaps in the market |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | French embassy in UK staff (June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Fusion CDT Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | ~40 students attended a 3 hour session on Fusion Fuel Cycle as part of the taught model for the Fusion CDT. I have already had follow up from one student on working on an aspect of his PhD using the facilities at Culham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Fusion Industry School (June and Sept 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Training course for fusion supply chain |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Group from TEPCO (April 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Host the visitors from Hitachi Research and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. to discuss information and collaboration in the field of decommissioning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Host the visitors from Hitachi Research and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. to discuss information and collaboration in the field of decommissioning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Host the visitors from Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to explore future research collaboration with Japan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Host the visitors from Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to explore future research collaboration with Japan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Host the visitors from the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) to exchange research information in the field of robotics and automation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Host the visitors from the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) to exchange research information in the field of robotics and automation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Hosted and organised TAROS Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Organised and hosted UK international robotics conference TAROS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | INWED Women in Engineering event (July 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshops at Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | ITV News visit to report on Integrated Service Joining System (in-bore cutting/welding tool) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness of UKAEA and fusion research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Inivited Speaker at University of Ljubljana, department of Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on early stages of stress corrosion cracking in nuclear power system |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Institute of Corrosion Aberdeen Annual Corrosion Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 40 companies that were involved in this event learnt about the corrosion challenges we are facing in the fusion world. Cross cutting technology and lessons learnt from other industries will be able to support the development of fusion power plant |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | International Summer School Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Stuart Muldrew gave lectures at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology international summer school. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited Colloquia at the department of theoretical physics, Surrey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | invited to speak to the theoretical physics department at the university of Surrey. Talk delivered on the subject of "Nuclear inventory simulations for fusion materials testing and applications" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited Talk: S. Dudarev, 4th Fusion HPC Workshop, Barcelona |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk: Sergei Dudarev, "Computational Models for Materials in a Virtual Tokamak Reactor", 4th Fusion HPC Workshop, 29-30 November 2023, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited University Guest Lectures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest lectures at the University of Sheffield on the Advanced Nuclear Systems module and guest lectures at the University of Liverpool on the Structural Integrity course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited lecture at university |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture for around 40 chemical engineering undergraduate students. Sparked interest for careers in fusion and fusion-adjacent sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited lecture at university |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture for over 140 undergraduate students of chemical engineering. Several students showed interest in applying for careers in fusion as a result of this lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited presentation - Guild of Instrument Makers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Guild of Instrument makers, who asked to understand some of the challenges faced by the Fusion community. I spoke about the process control and accountancy requirements for the Fusion Fuel Cycle to give an idea of the frequency challenge on one hand, and the accuracy challenge on the other. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk at University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk given by Chantal Nobs at the University of Brighton to current cohort of students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited talk at University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Chantal Shand invited to give talk at the University of Surrey for South Central members of IOP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited talk at University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Mike Gorley gave an invited talk at the University of Bristol. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk, D. Mason, MoD-PMI, Aachen, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk: Daniel Mason, "Atomistic studies of hydrogen retention in highly irradiated tungsten", MoD-PMI, Aachen De, May 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk, L. Reali, 7th Fusion Materials Theory & Modeling Workshop, Incheon, Korea |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on "?-photons and high-energy electrons: production by neutron irradiation and effects on nuclear materials" The 7th Fusion Materials Theory & Modeling Workshop, Incheon, Korea - Jan 29-31, 2024 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited talk: D. Mason, International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, ICFRM-21, Granada, Spain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk: Daniel Mason, "Simulated TEM of highly irradiated metals" , International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, ICFRM-21, Granada, Spain, October 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk: D. Mason, 7th FM TCP workshop on theory and modelling of nuclear fusion materials, Korea |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk: Daniel Mason, "Simulated Transmission Electron Microscopy of highly irradiated metals", 7th FM TCP workshop on theory and modelling of nuclear fusion materials, Incheon Kr, Jan 2024. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Italian Ambassador + staff (May 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | JEFF Nuclear Data Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talks on latest UKAEA nuclear data activities (including decay data development, shielding benchmarking and nuclear reaction studies) and debates and policy discussions within the NEA international nuclear data community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_77848/nuclear-data-week-april-2023 |
| Description | Lecture course at University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lee Packer presentes the Nuclear Fusion lectures annually at the University of Birmingham for the MSc Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Lecture to Chemical Engineering cohort at Manchester University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 1 hour lecture on the Fusion Fuel Cycle given to the third year Chemical Engineering cohort at Manchester University. Resulted in ~30 minutes of questions, and an improved understanding of the challenges faced and the opportunities within Fusion for ChemEng careers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | M. Gilbert, Invited lecture at central England Branch of nuclear institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An Invited talk at the Central England Branch of the Nuclear institute. Given at Harwell. Title: Nuclear inventory simulations supporting the design of fusion reactors. Followed by Q&A session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | No 10 business team (August 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Open evenings (virtual and face to face) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Virtual and face to face visits to Culham site |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Organising 6th MoD-PMI International workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organising of workshop and agenda. Talk on the importance of first-principles modelling for tritium permeation, diffusion and retention at fusion materials interface |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participate in the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) workshop to discuss how to design the first research programme funding scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participate in the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) workshop to discuss how to design the first research programme funding scheme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Poster Presentation in IEEE ICRA 2023 - Sim-and-Real Reinforcement Learning for Manipulation: A Consensus-based Approach (ICRA conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Poster Presentation in IEEE ICRA 2023 - Sim-and-Real Reinforcement Learning for Manipulation: A Consensus-based Approach (ICRA conference) - Wenxing Liu |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at ICTP-IAEA workshop on Open-Source Nuclear Codes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | James Hagues and Lee Packer presented on UKAEA application of OpenMC for nuclear analysis at UKAEA. Highlighted the significant work undertaken with this new code for fusion applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation in TAROS 2023 - Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning with Manipulators for Pick-and-Place (TAROS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in TAROS 2023 - Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning with Manipulators for Pick-and-Place (TAROS) - Wenxing Liu |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation in the iSPF&OC 2023 conference - Magnetic-Fusion-Plant Design Considerations Learnt from Research and Development of Practical Remote Deployment Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in the iSPF&OC 2023 conference - Magnetic-Fusion-Plant Design Considerations Learnt from Research and Development of Practical Remote Deployment Systems by Kaiqiang Zhang |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://i-fpc.org/ |
| Description | Presented at the IAEA Technical Meeting on Safety and Regulation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented UKAEA view on Tritium Accountancy regulation to an international audience of policy makers, regulatory bodies and fusion start-ups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Princess Astrid of Belgium + Belgian economic mission (May 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | R6 Residual Stress Subgroup - Workshop to discuss advice on residual stress profiles for high integrity components |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EDF are looking to improve on the existing residual stress advice used in structural integrity assessments of high-integrity components. Current advice is found in the R6 assessment procedure, which is a key UK asset for integrity assessment of such components. Integrity assessments are critical to ongoing safety case development underpinning plant life extension for fission reactors. Cory Hamelin has been invited as a subject matter expert to participate in the first of a series of workshops to outline a multi-year, multi-million pound programme of work supporting improvements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Robert Hannigan, National Cyber Security Centre (June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Royal Society Summer Exhibition (July 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Stand at national science festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | STFC careers fair (June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Stand at local careers fair. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at the ICG-EAC, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on oxidation of Eurofer97 under relevant water cooled breeder blanket conditions to International Cooperative Group on Environmentally-Assisted Cracking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk at the RadIAEM workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on the analysis of spectroscopic data in the transmission electron microscope |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talks and M&C international conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Oral presentation contributions and the 2023 international conference on mathematics and computing for nuclear science and engineering, held in Niagara Falls, Canada from 13-17 August, 2023. Three talks by UKAEA staff (David Foster, Ivan Kodeli, Mark Gilbert) were presented to audience of up to 50 fellow academics, researchers, industry members of postgraduate students, increasing international recognition of activities at UKAEA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://mc2023.com/ |
| Description | Talks at ICFRM conference on fusion reactor materials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Contributed research talks at international conference of fusion reactor materials covering a variety of topics including activation corrosion products, oxidation of materials, development of novel materials (steels, SiC, etc.), analysis of plasma-material interactions, development of models describing tritium retention, assessment of beryllium for fusion applications. around 20 contributions from UKAEA presenting to international experts from across the fusion materials community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.icfrm-21.com/ |
| Description | UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Call - UK Panel, August 2022, virtual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness / information sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UK Service Robotics - Workshop 1 Sessions 1 to 5, February 2022, virtual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UK Service Robotics - Workshop 2 Sessions 1 to 3, February and March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UKAEA Suppliers Day (July 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talks, networking and tours |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | University of Bath, Separation & Process Skills Development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Ongoing efforts to build expertise with hydrogen isotope separation technology development and general process engineering for the fusion fuel cycle. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| Description | University of Sheffield - Engineering for fusion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Building of process engineering and tritium in materials links for solving fuel cycle key issues, plans made for future PhDs and process engineering pipeline for sub-system development. Strong links formed and encouragement to work via future CDT's. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023,2024 |
| Description | University visits (various) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit of Andrew McCosh, Office of Science and technology Strategy (April 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visit to Culham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit of Trudy Harrison, MP to RAICO, March 2022, Culham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit to Oak Ridge National Labs to discuss RM and rad-hard electronics collaborations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Emil Jonasson - Visit to Oak Ridge National Labs to discuss RM and rad-hard electronics collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | White House Fusion Summit, March 2022, virtual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increase awareness / information sharing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Working Group for silicon carbide composites for civil nuclear |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Fusion relevant materials development actively progressing in EPSRC grant activity at UKAEA via inputs from industry and academia at these meetings; at same time, industry and academia being primed on irradiation aspects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2021,2022 |
| Description | Workshop 3: Shaping the National Service Robotics Proving Ground Facilities, February 2022, virtual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discover a range of plans and ideas for upgrading UK service robotics test facilities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Workshop in IEEE-ICRA2023 - Robotics in Fusion Energy: what are the challenges and how can we face them? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop in IEEE-ICRA2023 - Robotics in Fusion Energy: what are the challenges and how can we face them? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.icra2023.org/icra-programme/race-workshop-robotics-fusion-energy |
| Description | Workshop with University of Nottingham's Rolls Royce UTC to share challenges in fusion and discuss potential collaboration in the field of manufacturing and automation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with University of Nottingham's Rolls Royce UTC to share challenges in fusion and discuss potential collaboration in the field of manufacturing and automation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Workshop with the University of Lincoln's Engineering Faculty to develop multi-disciplinary research collaboration between the UKAEA and the University of Lincoln |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with the University of Lincoln's Engineering Faculty to develop multi-disciplinary research collaboration between the UKAEA and the University of Lincoln |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | organisation of pipe maintenance workshop and engagement with several partners from ITER, JADA, QST, KIT, F4E, etc. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | organisation of pipe maintenance workshop and engagement with several partners from ITER, JADA, QST, KIT, F4E, etc. all major fusion research agencies working on pipe maintenance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |