UKAEA / EPSRC Fusion Grant 2022/27
Lead Research Organisation:
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
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
- United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Lead Research Organisation)
- Tohoku University (Collaboration)
- Lodestar Research Corporation (Collaboration)
- University of Pisa (Collaboration)
- Aix-Marseille University (Collaboration)
- EUROfusion (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- BETA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED (Collaboration)
- Lucideon (Collaboration)
- College of William & Mary (Collaboration)
- Southwestern Institute of Physics (Collaboration)
- Lappeenranta University of Technology (Collaboration)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- University of Kyoto (Collaboration)
- Rolls Royce Group Plc (Collaboration)
- Ultra Electronics (Collaboration)
- General Atomics (Collaboration)
- National Composites Centre (NCC) (Collaboration)
- Bangor University (Collaboration)
- Tokamak Energy (Collaboration)
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- McGill University (Collaboration)
- Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) (Collaboration)
- Uppsala University (Collaboration)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Princeton University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of California, Irvine (Collaboration)
- University of Huddersfield (Collaboration)
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (Collaboration)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- National Nuclear Laboratory (Collaboration)
- West Yorkshire Combined Authorities (Collaboration)
- National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Collaboration)
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Collaboration)
- Holdson (Collaboration)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- ADVANCED MANUFACTURING RESEARCH CENTRE (Collaboration)
- University of Strathclyde (Collaboration)
- Brunel University London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- University of Leeds (Collaboration)
- Columbia University (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- University of Nottingham (Collaboration)
- Archer Tehnicoat Ltd (Collaboration)
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (Collaboration)
- University of Rochester (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF READING (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (Collaboration)
- National Physical Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (Project Partner)
- ITER Organization (Project Partner)
- Fusion for Energy (Project Partner)
- Swansea University (Project Partner)
- University of Cambridge (Project Partner)
- Lancaster University (Project Partner)
- University of York (Project Partner)
- Henry Royce Institute (Project Partner)
- University of Manchester (Project Partner)
Publications
Acton G
(2024)
Optimisation of gyrokinetic microstability using adjoint methods
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Adame E
(2022)
Qualification & testing of joining development for DEMO limiter component
in Fusion Engineering and Design
Adeyemi G
(2025)
Casting Homogeneity of Scaled-Up Multiprincipal Component Alloys
in Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
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
Allen J
(2024)
Design Update on the MAST-Upgrade Microwave Heating and Current Drive System Launchers
in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
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
(2024)
Real-time plasma equilibrium reconstruction and shape control for the MAST Upgrade tokamak
in Nuclear Fusion
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
| 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 | Update March 2025 Plasma • Recent results from the MAST Upgrade tokamak have substantially improved our understanding of plasma exhaust in operation. Detailed measurements, underpinned by sophisticated analysis techniques, have elucidated the key role of plasma-atom/molecule interactions in governing divertor detachment, and the dominance of different mechanisms as detachment progresses. New results from MAST Upgrade, and comparative studies with the TCV tokamak, have demonstrated that plasma-molecule interactions facilitate the earlier phases of detachment, and that these mechanisms are not well captured by existing modelling tools. Data from these experiments are contributing to improvements in the databases used by these tools to improve these models, building confidence in predictions of future devices. • Observing the plasma behaviour is of capital importance to be able to understand its behaviour and hence to predict its performance in fusion power plants. The excellence in the diagnostic expertise of the Culham laboratory allowed UKAEA to attract contracts worth millions of pounds, supporting international fusion projects as well as private companies. In particular, the fundamental research in innovative diagnostic development has allowed to attract work from the American Department of Energy that subcontracted important measuring systems to the UKAEA team. Also, private companies like General Fusion or Novatron have chosen UKAEA as partner of choice to develop their diagnostic systems. The EPSRC funded diagnostic developments for MAST-U as well as the work in our state-of-the-art laboratories have underpinned the commercial activities, both providing the technical expertise and enhancing the reputation of UKAEA in this area. Tritium • A key role on tritium integration was held at EUROfusion for the first two years of the grant period, enabling tritium expertise to be shared with Europe's DEMO (fusion powerplant) collaborators and for UKAEA to develop a deeper understanding of plans and progress on the DEMO tritium plant. • A world first rig (HERA) has been designed and is now in build, to enable the development and testing of critical analytical tools (including Raman and Gas Chromatography) for the monitoring and control of tritium throughout its lifecycle in a fusion power plant. Accurate monitoring is essential for process control, safety and regulatory compliance. To date suitable tools for this purpose have not been demonstrated. This rig will be critical in closing this key technology gap. In addition the work has provided the opportunity to collaborate with industry in optimising analytical tools for fusion applications. HERA is just one of a number of globally unique facilities that are in development as part of the grant, another example is our THEIA facility, a high tritium inventory sieverts apparatus, also in development in collaboration with industry, that will enable the optimisation of isotope separation systems. • Dedicated experimental operations of the JET fuel cycle have been carried out to characterise the performance of a range of fuel cycle subsystems including storage, isotope separation and pumping. The JET facilities are globally unique so capture of this data prior to decommissioning is extremely important for the future of any fusion system that uses tritium. • A database of physical properties for hydrogen isotopologues has been developed, capturing data from the literature as well as that originating from experimental work within the research programme. The database, named Providence, is essential for the development of predictive fuel cycle models, and contains information on the provenance of all data, as well as a desktop application with exporters for various software to maximise usability. Computing • Work in the front years of the grant has demonstrated the utility of large-scale finite element modelling for capturing multi-physics behaviour of tokamak-scale systems - a practise of benefit to global fusion going forward. • The FAIRMAST data service is becoming recognised in the community as a leader in the democratisation of fusion data. It has been used in the recent ITER international school and is informing work done as part of an international collaboration coordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The UKAEA's dataset now includes highly curated and cleaned "level 2" data, which will be instrumental in our ongoing work on various Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning projects. • EPSRC funds were leveraged to set up the Fusion Computing Lab (FCL) with STFC Hartree Center. This collaboration focuses on the path towards digital twinning of fusion reactors and has work in progress on a range of topics including digital threads, control methods, advanced visualisation, surrogate modelling and uncertainty quantification. In the 24/25 FY there was ~20FTE of effort under the collaboration, which is now supported by CSR funds. Materials • Grant funded activity led to the creation of a £12m, 4 year, national programme across 11 enterprises for advanced steel development for high temperature nuclear applications (NEURONE). The programme has just delivered a world first 5.5 tonne ingot of reduced activation ferritic martensitic alloy, representing a proto supply chain for future fusion builds at home and abroad. • Successful deployment for the final Deuterium-Tritium campaigns on JET of a laser induced desorption quantitative mass spectrometry (LID-QMS) system for non-invasive fuel retention studies of first wall materials. This system will be applicable for multiple tokamaks operating globally. • Studies on the effects of irradiation on Silicon Carbide composites have led to patent application for a new manufacturing process with a large UK industry player in aerospace expressing interest in the high density composites obtained. Commercial translation dialogue is in progress. Robotics • A novel actuation design is being patented, because of its potential mechanical advantages by design. This has enabled an international collaboration with the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy and interest from institutes, e.g. JAXA in the space sector, which shares similar design challenges for space manipulators. • Investigation into the benefits of leveraging AI and Machine Learning (ML) to automation tasks has led to a ML-empowered visual system analysing nonlinear bending dynamics of flexible large payloads, suitable for non nuclear large industry installations. • A control framework, which integrates digital twin, teleoperation, automated manipulation, force-compliant control, and computer perception, has been designed enabling non-destructive disassembly and reassembly tasks, relevant to high hazard industrial users beyond fusion. Technology • BLUEMIRA v1.0, a whole plant design framework code has been developed and open sourced and is being actively used internationally,supporting world leading fusion power plant demonstration design activities (including the UK's STEP powerplant prototype). • World first results in full field mapping of miniaturised low cycle fatigue samples at elevated (>600°C) temperature under vacuum, and world first full field deformation mapping of tensile samples tested at cryogenic temperatures. Applicable across materials applications in multiple sectors. • Notable dissemination and leadership at the 30th Symposium Of Fusion Engineering (SOFE): UKAEA staff were the chairs and technical chairs for the conference committees, and UK had >30 presentations and papers resulting from EPSRC programme grant at this internally renowned fusion conference. Universities and Schools • EPSRC sponsorship is the dominant funding mode for UKAEA's PhD Programme which enrolled 47 students in 2022; 52 in 2023 and 49 in 2024. This provides research interface to 30 UK universities. Further financial sponsorship includes half a dozen dedicated Chair positions and wide support for EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training e.g. the Fusion Power, RAINZ, SATURN, EnerHy CDTs amongst others. • In collaboration the Fusion CDT, UKAEA has organised an annual Fusion Industry School (2 week course) to train the wider supply chain in fusion science and technology. The 2024 event was the third FIS event - each year training 50-60 delegates. • UKAEA recruits a handful of prestigious two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellows each year, who focus on self-directed research into a specific key priority research area. Two fellows started in 2022, one in 2023 and two have just started in 2024. • UKAEA has always had a strong public and education outreach programme comprising dozens of school visit days, events stalls and public open evenings per year to view fusion experiments and facilities at Culham Campus. First submission 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 | Belgium |
| 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 | Data for "Chasing the multi-modal plasma response in MAST-U" |
| Description | This deposit contains the data created for the manuscript. Figures 1 and 2 are fit of the experimental data from the MAST-U experiment. The rest of the data were created with the MARS-F code (Liu et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681) and analyzed using ad hoc python scripts. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery/doi/10.34770/dq61-gf89 |
| Title | Data related to: Fast low-temperature irradiation creep driven by athermal defect dynamics |
| Description | Data set related to article "Fast low-temperature irradiation creep driven by athermal defect dynamics" Simulation data Molecular dynamics data The molecular dynamics data is the output of simulations of single-crystal tungsten with periodic boundary conditions evolving under irradiation up to high dose (0.5 dpa). The simulations are performed under a constant externally applied stress, uniaxial to z-direction, and zero stress conditions otherwise. Simulations were performed for stresses of -1.0 GPa, -0.5 GPa, 0 GPa, 0.5 GPa, 1.0 GPa, 1.5 GPa, and 2.0 GPa. Each stress condition was simulated five times independently. Simulations were performed in LAMMPS (see below for the simulation script). Only every 100th frame in LAMMPS Dump format is uploaded here. A frame corresponds to a dose increment of approximately 0.0002 dpa, i.e. frame 1000 corresponds to a dose of approximately 0.2 dpa. The files are zipped. A finer resolution can be supplied upon request (up to every 5th frame). The zip archive naming convention is as follows: For example, archive "srim_neg1p0.zip" contains data of the 5 simulations for -1.0 GPa (='negative 1 point 0'), where snapshot "srim_neg1p0_2/srim_neg1p0_2.1300.dump" refers to independent simulation ID 2, frame 1300, i.e. at a dose of 0.26 dpa. "srim_pos0p5.zip" contains the 5 simulations for 0.5 GPa (='positive 0 point 5'), and so on. Archive "logfiles.zip" contains the simulation output information, containing stresses and box dimensions for every cascade iteration of each simulation. These can be used to generate the box eigenstrains. The columns are defined as follows: iteration number, dose (dpa), total potential energy (eV), pressure xx (bar), pressure yy (bar), pressure zz (bar), pressure xy (bar), pressure xz (bar), pressure yz (bar), simulation box width x (Å), simulation box width y (Å), simulation box width z (Å) The files contain a few lines labelled with "# restart", which marks points at which the simulation was terminated and then continued. Archive "md_eigenstrains.zip" contains the eigenstrain tensor components parallel and perpendicular to the uniaxial stress direction obtained directly from the MD simulations. The format is as follows: For example, files "eigenpara_pos0p5_0.dat" and "eigenperp_pos0p5_0" contain the MD eigenstrains parallel and perpendicular to the uniaxial loading direction of simulation "eigenpara_pos0p5_0", respectively. The first column is the NRT dose (dpa), and the second column is the eigenstrain value at this dose. The perpendicular eigenstrain is the average of the eigenstrain components xx and yy. Molecular dynamics script The LAMMPS script for performing high-dose collision cascade simulations is available at: https://github.com/mb4512/ezcascades The simulation input files required to replicate the molecular dynamics simulations of this work are supplied here. Archive "md_input_files.zip" contains simulation input files, specifying box dimensions, stress constraints, the interatomic potential, paths to simulation and scratch directories, and so on. For example, "srim_neg1p0_0.json" is the input file for the "srim_neg1p0_0" simulation. The interatomic potential "W_MNB_JPCM17.eam.fs" used here is the embedded atom method potential for tungsten developed by Mason et al: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa9776, available at the NIST Interatomic Potentials Repository. Surrogate model data Archive "eigenstrain_models.zip" contains the MLE model parameters for the eigenstrain surrogate models. The format is as follows: For example, files "eigenpara_neg0p5.log" and "eigenperp_neg0p5.log" contain the cubic spline knot points for the MLE model of eigenstrains parallel and perpendicular to the uniaxial loading direction at -0.5 GPa, respectively. The file contains columns labelled as x, y, and sigma, which correspond to dose (dpa), eigenstrain mean, and eigenstrain standard deviation, respectively. The spline boundary conditions are f(x = 0) = 0, f''(x = 0) = 0, and f'(x_end) = 0, where x_end is the final dose value in the list. The model is extrapolated for higher doses: f(x > x_end) = f(x_end). The log files also contain the covariance matrix of the eigenstrain mean values, from which model uncertainties can be derived. Archive "doseprofile.zip" contains the irradiation dose profile as generated using SRIM data following the procedure described in the Supplemental Information. The content is as follows: Files "vacgrid_x_8micro_HR.dat", "vacgrid_y_8micro_HR.dat" contain the x and y coordinates of the 2 dimensional grid, respectively. File "vacgrid_z_8micro_HR.dat" contains a list of dose values (in arbitrary units). The values are ordered consistently, that is, the n-th values of each file give the matching tuple (x, y, dose(x,y)). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13383236 |
| Title | Data related to: Fast low-temperature irradiation creep driven by athermal defect dynamics |
| Description | Data set related to article "Fast low-temperature irradiation creep driven by athermal defect dynamics" Simulation data Molecular dynamics data The molecular dynamics data is the output of simulations of single-crystal tungsten with periodic boundary conditions evolving under irradiation up to high dose (0.5 dpa). The simulations are performed under a constant externally applied stress, uniaxial to z-direction, and zero stress conditions otherwise. Simulations were performed for stresses of -1.0 GPa, -0.5 GPa, 0 GPa, 0.5 GPa, 1.0 GPa, 1.5 GPa, and 2.0 GPa. Each stress condition was simulated five times independently. Simulations were performed in LAMMPS (see below for the simulation script). Only every 100th frame in LAMMPS Dump format is uploaded here. A frame corresponds to a dose increment of approximately 0.0002 dpa, i.e. frame 1000 corresponds to a dose of approximately 0.2 dpa. The files are zipped. A finer resolution can be supplied upon request (up to every 5th frame). The zip archive naming convention is as follows: For example, archive "srim_neg1p0.zip" contains data of the 5 simulations for -1.0 GPa (='negative 1 point 0'), where snapshot "srim_neg1p0_2/srim_neg1p0_2.1300.dump" refers to independent simulation ID 2, frame 1300, i.e. at a dose of 0.26 dpa. "srim_pos0p5.zip" contains the 5 simulations for 0.5 GPa (='positive 0 point 5'), and so on. Archive "logfiles.zip" contains the simulation output information, containing stresses and box dimensions for every cascade iteration of each simulation. These can be used to generate the box eigenstrains. The columns are defined as follows: iteration number, dose (dpa), total potential energy (eV), pressure xx (bar), pressure yy (bar), pressure zz (bar), pressure xy (bar), pressure xz (bar), pressure yz (bar), simulation box width x (Å), simulation box width y (Å), simulation box width z (Å) The files contain a few lines labelled with "# restart", which marks points at which the simulation was terminated and then continued. Archive "md_eigenstrains.zip" contains the eigenstrain tensor components parallel and perpendicular to the uniaxial stress direction obtained directly from the MD simulations. The format is as follows: For example, files "eigenpara_pos0p5_0.dat" and "eigenperp_pos0p5_0" contain the MD eigenstrains parallel and perpendicular to the uniaxial loading direction of simulation "eigenpara_pos0p5_0", respectively. The first column is the NRT dose (dpa), and the second column is the eigenstrain value at this dose. The perpendicular eigenstrain is the average of the eigenstrain components xx and yy. Molecular dynamics script The LAMMPS script for performing high-dose collision cascade simulations is available at: https://github.com/mb4512/ezcascades The simulation input files required to replicate the molecular dynamics simulations of this work are supplied here. Archive "md_input_files.zip" contains simulation input files, specifying box dimensions, stress constraints, the interatomic potential, paths to simulation and scratch directories, and so on. For example, "srim_neg1p0_0.json" is the input file for the "srim_neg1p0_0" simulation. The interatomic potential "W_MNB_JPCM17.eam.fs" used here is the embedded atom method potential for tungsten developed by Mason et al: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa9776, available at the NIST Interatomic Potentials Repository. Surrogate model data Archive "eigenstrain_models.zip" contains the MLE model parameters for the eigenstrain surrogate models. The format is as follows: For example, files "eigenpara_neg0p5.log" and "eigenperp_neg0p5.log" contain the cubic spline knot points for the MLE model of eigenstrains parallel and perpendicular to the uniaxial loading direction at -0.5 GPa, respectively. The file contains columns labelled as x, y, and sigma, which correspond to dose (dpa), eigenstrain mean, and eigenstrain standard deviation, respectively. The spline boundary conditions are f(x = 0) = 0, f''(x = 0) = 0, and f'(x_end) = 0, where x_end is the final dose value in the list. The model is extrapolated for higher doses: f(x > x_end) = f(x_end). The log files also contain the covariance matrix of the eigenstrain mean values, from which model uncertainties can be derived. Archive "doseprofile.zip" contains the irradiation dose profile as generated using SRIM data following the procedure described in the Supplemental Information. The content is as follows: Files "vacgrid_x_8micro_HR.dat", "vacgrid_y_8micro_HR.dat" contain the x and y coordinates of the 2 dimensional grid, respectively. File "vacgrid_z_8micro_HR.dat" contains a list of dose values (in arbitrary units). The values are ordered consistently, that is, the n-th values of each file give the matching tuple (x, y, dose(x,y)). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13383235 |
| Title | Dataset: tests of a finite-element implementation of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck collision operator |
| Description | Data and plots created in the course of studying a finite element implementation of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck collision operator for charged particle collisions in a low density plasma. Created with the Julia-based code "moment_kinetics" https://github.com/mabarnes/moment_kinetics. This work was supported by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ExCALIBUR programme grant. The ExCALIBUR programme (https://excalibur.ac.uk/) is supported by the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund. The programme is co-delivered by the Met Office and EPSRC in partnership with the Public Sector Research Establishment, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and UKRI research councils, including NERC, MRC and STFC. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-09CH11466. The United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 - EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b3553faf-a735-44b3-95f9-5baa49a29ebf |
| Title | FAIR MAST dataset |
| Description | The FAIR MAST database for historical MAST data has been created. This is a data management solution to serve FAIR and Open data from the MAST experiment. This data is now publicaly open and available. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Easier sharing and use of historical MAST data allowing increased value to be derived from the data acquired by the experiment. |
| URL | https://mastapp.site/ |
| Title | Free-GSNKE, EFIT and Fiesta equilibrium cross-validation dataset |
| Description | This dataset contains equilibrium data used for the cross validation of the Free-GSNKE, EFIT++ and Fiesta equilibrium codes as described in this paper: Pentland et al. (2025). Validation of the static forward Grad-Shafranov equilibrium solvers in FreeGSNKE and Fiesta using EFIT++ reconstructions from MAST-U.' |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This cross-validation activity increased confidence in the reliability of the open source, python-based, equilibrium code Free-GNSKE. This has resulted in wider adoption of the code including for use in the construction of a control-room pulse design tool for MAST-U. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.14468/26m5-ey02 |
| Title | Operating data from AGHS from the DTE3 campaign |
| Description | The operating data of several key AGHS subsystems has been harvested and conditioned for use in modelling fuel cycle technologies. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | AGHS operation during the DTE3 campaign is the only available source of active operating fusion fuel cycle data in the world. The data is air-gapped and subject to a compression algorithm, hence it was essential to extract the data as soon as practicable. It is now being used to generate models of GC columns and Uranium Bed sorption dynamics, which will inform the design of future facilities. |
| Title | Raw images and processed datasets related to the journal article Robust Assessment of Post-Localisation Hardening Behaviour in Eurofer97 using Inverse Finite Element Methods |
| Description | Programme Area:Technology |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://opendata.ukaea.uk/doi/?id=d9df-ex56&br=2024 |
| Title | Raw images and processed datasets related to the journal article Robust Assessment of Post-Localisation Hardening Behaviour in Eurofer97 using Inverse Finite Element Methods |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11071443 |
| Title | Raw images and processed datasets related to the journal article Robust Assessment of Post-Localisation Hardening Behaviour in Eurofer97 using Inverse Finite Element Methods |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11071444 |
| Title | ReMKiT1D - A framework for building reactive multi-fluid models of the tokamak scrape-off layer with coupled electron kinetics in 1D |
| Description | In this manuscript we present the recently developed flexible framework for building both fluid and electron kinetic models of the tokamak Scrape-Off Layer in 1D - ReMKiT1D (Reactive Multi-fluid and Kinetic Transport in 1D). The framework can handle systems of non-linear ODEs, various 1D PDEs arising in fluid modelling, as well as PDEs arising from the treatment of the electron kinetic equation. As such, the framework allows for flexibility in fluid models of the Scrape-Off Layer while allowing the easy addition of kinetic electron effects. We focus on presenting both the high-level design decisions that allow for model flexibility, as well as the most important implementation aspects. A significant number of verification and performance tests are presented, as well as a step-by-step walkthrough of a simple example for setting up models using the Python interface. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/j47ym66xzj/1 |
| Title | ReMKiT1D - A framework for building reactive multi-fluid models of the tokamak scrape-off layer with coupled electron kinetics in 1D |
| Description | In this manuscript we present the recently developed flexible framework for building both fluid and electron kinetic models of the tokamak Scrape-Off Layer in 1D - ReMKiT1D (Reactive Multi-fluid and Kinetic Transport in 1D). The framework can handle systems of non-linear ODEs, various 1D PDEs arising in fluid modelling, as well as PDEs arising from the treatment of the electron kinetic equation. As such, the framework allows for flexibility in fluid models of the Scrape-Off Layer while allowing the easy addition of kinetic electron effects. We focus on presenting both the high-level design decisions that allow for model flexibility, as well as the most important implementation aspects. A significant number of verification and performance tests are presented, as well as a step-by-step walkthrough of a simple example for setting up models using the Python interface. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/j47ym66xzj |
| 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 | Simulations of Nanocrystalline Iron Formation under High Shear Strain |
| Description | High-shear methods have long been used in experiments to refine grain structures in metals, yet the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. We demonstrate a refinement process using molecular dynamic simulations of iron, wherein nanocrystalline structures are generated from initially perfect lattices under high-shear strain. The simulation cells undergo a highly disordered state, followed by an atomic reordering and grain coarsening, resulting in nanograins. We explore the dependence on parameters such as temperature, heat dissipation rate, shear strain rate, and carbon impurity concentration. Higher temperatures lead to the formation of larger and longer grains. The faster heat dissipation sample initially yields more small grains, but their number subsequently reduces, and is lower than the slower heat dissipation sample at approximately gamma = 1.5. Slower strain rates do not promote nanograin formation. The presence of carbon impurities appears to have little effect on grain formation. This detailed analysis affords insight into the mechanisms that control the formation of nanograins under high-shear conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14268330 |
| Title | Simulations of Nanocrystalline Iron Formation under High Shear Strain |
| Description | High-shear methods have long been used in experiments to refine grain structures in metals, yet the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. We demonstrate a refinement process using molecular dynamic simulations of iron, wherein nanocrystalline structures are generated from initially perfect lattices under high-shear strain. The simulation cells undergo a highly disordered state, followed by an atomic reordering and grain coarsening, resulting in nanograins. We explore the dependence on parameters such as temperature, heat dissipation rate, shear strain rate, and carbon impurity concentration. Higher temperatures lead to the formation of larger and longer grains. The faster heat dissipation sample initially yields more small grains, but their number subsequently reduces, and is lower than the slower heat dissipation sample at approximately gamma = 1.5. Slower strain rates do not promote nanograin formation. The presence of carbon impurities appears to have little effect on grain formation. This detailed analysis affords insight into the mechanisms that control the formation of nanograins under high-shear conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14243763 |
| Title | Simulations of Nanocrystalline Iron Formation under High Shear Strain |
| Description | High-shear methods have long been used in experiments to refine grain structures in metals, yet the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. We demonstrate a refinement process using molecular dynamic simulations of iron, wherein nanocrystalline structures are generated from initially perfect lattices under high-shear strain. The simulation cells undergo a highly disordered state, followed by an atomic reordering and grain coarsening, resulting in nanograins. We explore the dependence on parameters such as temperature, heat dissipation rate, shear strain rate, and carbon impurity concentration. Higher temperatures lead to the formation of larger and longer grains. The faster heat dissipation sample initially yields more small grains, but their number subsequently reduces, and is lower than the slower heat dissipation sample at approximately gamma = 1.5. Slower strain rates do not promote nanograin formation. The presence of carbon impurities appears to have little effect on grain formation. This detailed analysis affords insight into the mechanisms that control the formation of nanograins under high-shear conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.14243764 |
| 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 |
| 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.10207687 |
| 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 | Active and continual learning for tokamak digital twins |
| Organisation | University of Pisa |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provide simulation data and use case for AI research |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide AI research for our simulation data and streaming digital twin use case |
| Impact | None yet, a MSc thesis and a paper are expected. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Active learning for linear spectra of the gyrokinetic code GKW |
| Organisation | Aix-Marseille University |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise on Active Learning |
| Collaborator Contribution | Simulations and neural network emulators of GKW |
| Impact | Paper, not yet published |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Active learning for pedestal gyrokinetics and pedestal MHD |
| Organisation | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd |
| Country | Finland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise on Active Learning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Gyrokinetics (GENE) and stability (HELENA+MISHKA) simulations and neural network emulators. |
| Impact | Papers, not yet published |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Active learning that is robust to noisy simulators |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise on active learning. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Application of active learning to noisy simulators with QuaLiKiz as an example. |
| Impact | A paper is expected, poster at ICDDPS-5, "Active learning of turbulent transport predictions towards robust generalized surrogate models" |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Alpha induced cross section measurements to support fusion diagnostic development |
| Organisation | Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering |
| Country | Romania |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | planning and performing measurements of neutrons produced in materials exposed to alpha particles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | planning and performing measurements of neutrons produced in materials exposed to alpha particles. |
| Impact | experiments performed, to be reported in joint publications. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Alpha induced cross section measurements to support fusion diagnostic development |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | planning and performing measurements of neutrons produced in materials exposed to alpha particles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | planning and performing measurements of neutrons produced in materials exposed to alpha particles. |
| Impact | experiments performed, to be reported in joint publications. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| 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 | Business plan for Refractory Metal Manufacturing Centre |
| Organisation | Beta Technology Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA contributed expertise and knowledge of the potential requirements for the manufacturing of refractory metal components for fusion system along with market and supply chain awareness |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contributed supply chain awareness and significant previous experience of building compelling and rigorous business cases for investment by regional and national funding bodies |
| Impact | Not yet completed. Outcome due at end March 2025 |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Business plan for Refractory Metal Manufacturing Centre |
| Organisation | Holdson |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA contributed expertise and knowledge of the potential requirements for the manufacturing of refractory metal components for fusion system along with market and supply chain awareness |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contributed supply chain awareness and significant previous experience of building compelling and rigorous business cases for investment by regional and national funding bodies |
| Impact | Not yet completed. Outcome due at end March 2025 |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Business plan for Refractory Metal Manufacturing Centre |
| Organisation | University of Huddersfield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA contributed expertise and knowledge of the potential requirements for the manufacturing of refractory metal components for fusion system along with market and supply chain awareness |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contributed supply chain awareness and significant previous experience of building compelling and rigorous business cases for investment by regional and national funding bodies |
| Impact | Not yet completed. Outcome due at end March 2025 |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Business plan for Refractory Metal Manufacturing Centre |
| Organisation | West Yorkshire Combined Authorities |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA contributed expertise and knowledge of the potential requirements for the manufacturing of refractory metal components for fusion system along with market and supply chain awareness |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contributed supply chain awareness and significant previous experience of building compelling and rigorous business cases for investment by regional and national funding bodies |
| Impact | Not yet completed. Outcome due at end March 2025 |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| 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 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 on fusion materials including Fe, Cu, Cr. conducting experiments, recording and analysing data. Planning experiments and acquiring of material samples. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Jointly planning and participating in experiments using time-of-flight stage at GANIL. Analysing data and developing computational methodology. |
| 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 | JIP on Improved machining of tungsten |
| Organisation | Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA provided information regarding machining requirements and tolerances |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contributed expertise and experience in machining of tungsten (NAMRC), specific geometrical requirements and tolerances (Tokamak Energy) and route to market (NEL Technologies ltd). All partners paid an equal share of costs. |
| Impact | Notable improvement in the ability to machine tungsten components to required tolerances. Capability to be offered to market and supply chain via NEL Technologies ltd. Report received from NAMRC but not shared further due to Collaboration Agreement stipulations. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | JIP on Improved machining of tungsten |
| Organisation | Tokamak Energy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | UKAEA provided information regarding machining requirements and tolerances |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contributed expertise and experience in machining of tungsten (NAMRC), specific geometrical requirements and tolerances (Tokamak Energy) and route to market (NEL Technologies ltd). All partners paid an equal share of costs. |
| Impact | Notable improvement in the ability to machine tungsten components to required tolerances. Capability to be offered to market and supply chain via NEL Technologies ltd. Report received from NAMRC but not shared further due to Collaboration Agreement stipulations. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| 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 | Nuclear benchmark activities using FNG facility |
| Organisation | National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Pre and post computational analysis of benchmark experiments at FNG performed on W and Conrete. |
| Collaborator Contribution | hosting of FNG neutron source and performing experiments, recording measurements |
| Impact | benchmark data already being worked into international benchmark data bases. concrete data supporting the development of the international collaboration for a fusion materials test facility (IFMIF). Reports submitted to European consortium on fusion development (EUROFusion) |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| 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 | Tritium inventory in tungsten with Professor Yuji Hatano, Tohoku University |
| Organisation | Tohoku University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Our team is providing recrystallised Tungsten which has undergone self-ion irradiation damage, we are sending samples to Tohoku university to be exposed in their high flux plasma device. We are exposing the same materials in our low flux device. We will use the data gathered to calibrate our DELPHI hydrogen isotope plasma exposure system, and perform modelling to learn about trapped deuterium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tohoku have provided us with a tour of their facilities when we visited (using funds provided by the British Foreign Office in Tokyo) and we have a discounted price for access to their high flux plasma device, and access to Yuji Hatano's skills and supervision and operator time in-kind. Yuji provides technical expertise and background IP for the high flux plasma device. |
| Impact | Outputs have yet to be produced, this will be updated accordingly |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| 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 | ULTRA Energy Collaboration |
| Organisation | Ultra Electronics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provided information around the requirements for tritium analytics within the fusion fuel cycle. Provided information on our rig set-up to allow the sensor to be tested. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of a sensor suitable for tritium analytics in the fusion fuel cycle for proof of concept. |
| Impact | Work on-going |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| 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 ActiFlow and GammaFlow |
| Description | Codes to enable the modelling of activated fluids, their flow and associated decay source term |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | Significant contributions to the radiation field arise from complex phenomena of activate fluids and their flow. Codes provide key understanding of these fields. Codes benchmarked against experimental data and other European codes. Have been used to predict activation of DEMO PbLi, IFMIF-DONES cooling water, STEP cooling circuits. Will be used in 2025 to estimate JET NBI cooling water activation. |
| URL | https://git.ccfe.ac.uk/tberry/actiflow |
| Title | Development of Novel 1-Step (N1S) code |
| Description | Modification of Monte Carlo code for calculation of shutdown dose rates in single-step calculation using adapted nuclear data libraries. An alternative to existing multi-step calculations and 1-step calculations which require user specification of reactions of interest. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | EPSRC 2022-23: development of N1S code for efficiency, material changes, off-load transformations and contribution analysis. EUROfusion WPPrIO NEXP 2024: user-defined multi-step reactions, CDGS output, simple off-load movement implementation. |
| 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 | Development of bluemira |
| Description | Power plant concept design framework with free-boundary equilibrium solver, coil placement, coil models, magnetostatics, tritium model, ports with RM considerations, first wall loading, divertor configurations, neutronics (OpenMC coupling), parametric CAD generation. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | ESPRC - Continued improvement of bluemira code from an architecture, stability, and feature basis. Reduction in issues/bugs and increase in code quality and robustness. The EPSRC funding for code maintenance acts as a force multiplier across all our projects. EUROfusion - feature development of bluemira to deliver concept design for EU-DEMO use case. |
| URL | https://github.com/Fusion-Power-Plant-Framework/bluemira |
| Title | Development of neutron spectrum unfolding codes |
| Description | Code suite for performing neutron spectrum unfolding. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Draws on best available international unfolding codes optimising for fusion applications |
| Title | Development of the MLCSA tool |
| Description | Tool in development to perform Compton suppression using machine learning. Part of publication in JOFE. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Impact | EPSRC: development of machine learning tools for fusion diagnostics, as part of part-time PhD and RADLab toolkit |
| URL | https://github.com/klennon27/MLCSA |
| Title | Enchanted-Surrogates |
| Description | Enchanted-Surrogates is a framework for creating databases for surrogate models of complex physics codes developed in collaboration with VTT. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Developing this software has been a fruitful collaboration with VTT which is now leading to other avenues of work. |
| URL | https://github.com/DIGIfusion/enchanted-surrogates |
| 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 | JADE V&V v3.0.0 |
| Description | Verification and validation tool for nuclear data libraries and particle transport codes. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Tool used in the validation of new nuclear data libraries release such as FENDL and JEFF. |
| URL | https://github.com/JADE-V-V/JADE |
| Title | Modernisation of PROCESS systems code |
| Description | The PROCESS systems code's models have now been converted to Python, enabling many modern research software engineering best practices such as modularity, continuous integration testing (unit, integration and regression) and interactive computing. The remaining conversion from Fortran of the core code is expected to be completed by May. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The enhanced CI testing regularly catches bugs during ongoing model development, and ensures stability of the codebase. The tracker system (https://ukaea.github.io/PROCESS/tracking.html) automatically records and graphs long-term changes in solution parameters for key designs (e.g. EU-DEMO, STEP) to detect drifts. The now-modular models allows interactive analysis for modellers via Jupyter notebooks, which has been used in verification and validation of models which is considerably easier when decoupled from the rest of the models. This has been used most recently to identify discontinuities in constraint equations, which are detrimental to solver convergence and can now be fixed. |
| URL | https://github.com/ukaea/PROCESS |
| 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/ |
| Title | Providence |
| Description | Providence is a database for thermodynamic property models required for process modelling of fusion technologies, which shows 95% confidence intervals on the model parameters. The models are regressed from raw data available in literature and validated against available operating data. The database has a built-in exporter for COMSOL and AVEVA Process Simulator packages. The database will soon be hosted on Nucleus. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The database is a single source of truth, which enables quick generation of a proprietary fusion-specific simulation environment. Process simulation platforms require a simulation environment, which forms the foundation of the simulation. Uncertainty within the thermodynamic models propagates through the simulation and the database provides visibility to that uncertainty. |
| Description | 'Fusion Technology for Yorkshire' |
| 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 | 'Fusion Technology for Yorkshire' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 'Into University' Careers talk |
| 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 | 'Into University' Careers talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | 'LEAF' careers event. |
| 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 | 'LEAF' careers event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 'Star Soup' |
| 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 | 'Star Soup' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | 'What's Next?' Bassetlaw careers event |
| 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 | 'What's Next?' Bassetlaw careers event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | (IF Oxford) Public open day |
| 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 | (IF Oxford) Public open day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | 2 workshops at Skelmersdale Woodland Community School on Fusion as a clean energy source |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 21st May 2024: UKAEA held 2 workshops at Skelmersdale Woodland Community School (48.6% eligible for free school meals) for 10-12 year olds on fusion as a renewable energy source in partnership with 4wardFutures. The workshop focused on how computing plays an important role in the development of fusion power. A follow up was held one month later with students giving powerpoint presentations on what they learned from a homework activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.4wardfutures.org.uk/ |
| Description | 2x talks per year at WP-DIV monitoring meetings |
| 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 | 2x talks per year at WP-DIV monitoring meetings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | ACCMS-Global Research Center |
| 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 | ACCMS-Global Research Center - invited talk and chairing of technical session. Duc Nguyen Manh Talk delivered on the subject of "Toward finite-element modelling of hydrogen isotopes transport for fusion materials from first-principles" Chaired Discussion on "Superatomic chemistry and super-atom based materials" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | AMP event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | AMP event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ASME Code development |
| 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 | ASME Code development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ASTM ICAM 2022 invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ASTM ICAM 2022 invited talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | Abbeyfield School Careers Fair |
| 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 | Abbeyfield School Careers Fair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Act as senior liaison to EUROfusion for UKAEA |
| 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 | Act as senior liaison to EUROfusion for UKAEA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Annual Meeting of UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (SIG NTH) and Collaborative Computational Project for Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP NTH) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Annual Meeting of UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (SIG NTH) and Collaborative Computational Project for Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP NTH) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Annual Meeting of UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (SIG NTH) and Collaborative Computational Project for Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP NTH) |
| 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 | Annual Meeting of UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (SIG NTH) and Collaborative Computational Project for Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP NTH) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Annual Meeting of UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (SIG NTH) and Collaborative Computational Project for Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP NTH) |
| 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 | Annual Meeting of UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (SIG NTH) and Collaborative Computational Project for Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP NTH) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Attendance and presentation at ITER ACPs Workshop (June 2024) on UKAEA developments in fluid activation and ACP modelling |
| 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 | Attendance and presentation at ITER ACPs Workshop (June 2024) on UKAEA developments in fluid activation and ACP modelling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Attendance at ICFRM-21 |
| 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 | Attendance at ICFRM-21 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | BLAST (IF Oxford) |
| 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 | BLAST (IF Oxford) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | BSSM High Temperature Seminar Invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BSSM High Temperature Seminar Invited talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Bassetlaw Museum science fair |
| 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 | Bassetlaw Museum science fair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Bassetlaw Public STEM week |
| 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 | Bassetlaw Public STEM week |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Bassetlaw Youth Council talk |
| 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 | Bassetlaw Youth Council talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Began Eurofusion PSD-WPPRD UQ collaboration |
| 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 | Began Eurofusion PSD-WPPRD UQ collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Big Bang Science Fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Big Bang Science Fair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Cadets |
| 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 | Cadets |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 between UKAEA, Imperial college and University of Birmingham on oxidation |
| 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 | Organisation of a UKAEA-Imperial College workshop on Oxidation of fusion materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Computing workshop for UKAEA Skills Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 10th February 2025: 2 hour workshop for UKAEA Skills Day held for 12 students aged 14-18 from Oxfordshire with activities on computational thinking: activities included writing pseudocode to simulate Brownian motion and collisions, and exploring how changing simulation parameters about individual particle behaviour can be used to examine how a macroscopic outcome ("fusion rate") depends on this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Director of ITER to DEMO part of IFMIF-DONES Spring School in Granada (S. Muldrew and C. Harrington presented) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Director of ITER to DEMO part of IFMIF-DONES Spring School in Granada (S. Muldrew and C. Harrington presented) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Discussion with CEA, France |
| 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 | Discussion with radioactive waste assessment team at CEA,France for future collaboration and a visit to their labs |
| 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 | EPSRC Research Expo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EPSRC Research Expo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | ESAFORM Seminar on MT2 invited talk in Ghent |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ESAFORM Seminar on MT2 invited talk in Ghent |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Earth Summit |
| 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 | Earth Summit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Elvington primary school |
| 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 | Elvington primary school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Engaged with Frascati neutron source on tritiating titanium targets for their source |
| 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 | Discussions on developing methods to tritiate materials for neutron sources |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Establish liaison with ASTM on probabilistic qualification approach used in aerospace |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Establish liaison with ASTM on probabilistic qualification approach used in aerospace |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Establish liaison with Cranfield University on alternative qualification method for additive manufacturing (PhysiQual) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Establish liaison with Cranfield University on alternative qualification method for additive manufacturing (PhysiQual) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Establish liaison with FNC regarding probabilisitc qualificaton (e.g. use of Bayesian optimization/inference/networks and associated software). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Establish liaison with FNC regarding probabilisitc qualificaton (e.g. use of Bayesian optimization/inference/networks and associated software). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Establish liaison with the MTC on novel inspection methods and probabilistic qualification |
| 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 | Establish liaison with the MTC on novel inspection methods and probabilistic qualification |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Festival of Science and Curiosity |
| 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 | Festival of Science and Curiosity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Fun Palace |
| 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 | Fun Palace |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Fusion 2022 London |
| 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 | Fusion 2022 London |
| 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 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 | Presented a 3 hour lecture on Introduction to the Fusion Fuel Cycle to the new Fusion CDT cohort. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Fusion Energy Academy Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented a 1 hour lecture introducing the main challenges with the Fusion Fuel Cycle. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 | Fusion Live Stream - British Science Week |
| 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 | Fusion Live Stream - British Science Week |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Future Labs |
| 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 | Future Labs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Gainsborough Community Event |
| 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 | Gainsborough Community Event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Get Up To Speed with STEM |
| 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 | Get Up To Speed with STEM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Get Up To Speed with STEM |
| 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 | Get Up To Speed with STEM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Harwell open week - Public day |
| 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 | Harwell open week - Public day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Harwell open week - Schools days |
| 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 | Harwell open week - Schools days |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Hosting collaborating researchers from Poland (IPPLM and IFJ PAN) in the RADLab for cross-comparison of techniques and results with our and their labs using activation foils irradaited in JET |
| 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 | Hosting collaborating researchers from Poland (IPPLM and IFJ PAN) in the RADLab for cross-comparison of techniques and results with our and their labs using activation foils irradaited in JET |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Hosting of EA regulators for MRF tour |
| 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 | Andy London Gave tour for the EA area managers and EA inspector of the materials research facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | IAEA FEC conference participation - waste assessment, nuclear data team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Number of posters, talks at conference, participation in satellite policy discussions, etc.. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.iaea.org/events/fec2023 |
| Description | IMEchE Seminar on Reducing Conservatism in Structural Integrity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IMEchE Seminar on Reducing Conservatism in Structural Integrity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IMechE talk in CHIMERA- talk by Tom Barrett |
| 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 | IMechE talk in CHIMERA- talk by Tom Barrett |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | INWED (Internation Women in Engineering Day) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | INWED (Internation Women in Engineering Day) / STEM |
| 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 of Oxford Fusion CDT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture at University of Oxford Fusion CDT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Invited lecture at University of York Fusion CDT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture at University of York Fusion CDT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 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 of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture at university of York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Invited lecture to Nuclear Engineering course at University of Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture to Nuclear Engineering course at University of Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Invited lectures at the University of Birmingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lectures at the University of Birmingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| 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 presentation at 26th PSI conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited oral at 26th International Conference on Plasma Surface Interaction "Overview of fuel retention and recovery in JET Deuterium-Tritium operations" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited speaker at Gordon Conference (Aqueous Corrosion) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at Gordon Conference (Aqueous Corrosion) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Invited talk at MRS Spring 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at key materials conference, held annually in the US. |
| 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 | 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 | Mike Gorley gave an invited talk at the University of Bristol. |
| 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 | 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 the Atom Probe Users' Conference |
| 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: Accurate quantification of composition uncertainty |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Invited talk: L. Zanisi, PASC workshop on AI for fusion 16-18 June 2025 |
| 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 for L. Zanisi on "Data-efficient surrogate models for fusion digital twins". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://pasc25.pasc-conference.org/ |
| 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 | L. Reali oral presentation at SNA-MC Conference https://www.sfen.org/evenement/sna-mc-2024/ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | L. Reali gave an oral presentation at the SNA-MC conference in Paris on 16.10.24 describing work on the development of a CAD based FEM 'virtual tokamak' model used to study gravitationally induced stresses and deformations of MAST-U. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2024/12/epjconf_snamc2024_06002.pdf |
| Description | LSST parents and carers talk |
| 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 | LSST parents and carers talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 given for Manchester University NTech module |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | NTec module offered to allow Industry to upskill staff. Two lectures given on Tritium analytics and Isotope Separation Systems for the Fusion Energy week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Lincoln STEP community event |
| 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 | Lincoln STEP community event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Lincolnshire LEP event |
| 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 | Lincolnshire LEP event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Magna science adventure centre- Rotherham |
| 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 | Magna science adventure centre- Rotherham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Magnetics workshop (FOSAC) |
| 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 | Magnetics workshop (FOSAC) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Manchester Met Careers Fair |
| 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 | Manchester Met Careers Fair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | MatchID User Workshop 2023 Invited Talk |
| 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 | MatchID User Workshop 2023 Invited Talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Mount St Mary school talk |
| 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 | Mount St Mary school talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Neutron scattering collaboration discussions with Prof. Matthew Potter and Alex O'Malley from Bath University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussed working closely together building neutron capability at UKAEA, sending some of our scientists to scattering experiments to learn, putting proposals together and building a collaboration for isotope separation materials and more. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | New Scientist Live |
| 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 | New Scientist Live |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | New Scientist Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | New Scientist Live |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | New Scientist Live 2023 |
| 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 | New Scientist Live 2023 |
| 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 | North Star Science School |
| 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 | North Star Science School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | North Star Workshopping session |
| 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 | North Star Workshopping session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | North Star Workshopping session |
| 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 | North Star Workshopping session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | North Star event 2023 |
| 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 | North Star event 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | North Star- Workwise & Park Academy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | North Star- Workwise & Park Academy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Nottingham Uni sustainability talk |
| 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 | Nottingham Uni sustainability talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | On technical committee for US workshop on developing a fuel cycle roadmap |
| 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 | EPRI hosted a workshop to look at developing a fusion fuel cycle roadmap to deliver against the US decadal vision. Rachel Lawless was a technical committee member and a number of other members of the UKAEA fuel cycle team also attended, presented and engaged in discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | One day joint workshop with RCNDE hosted at Culham - 40 attendees |
| 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 | One day joint workshop with RCNDE hosted at Culham - 40 attendees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Oral presentation by L. Zanisi at ICDDPS-5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | L. Zanisi gave an oral presentation on the use of streaming active learning to build data driven surrogate models at the 5th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science (ICDDPS-5). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://na.eventscloud.com/website/63026/home/ |
| Description | Oral presentation by W. Hornsby at ICDDPS-5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | W. Hornsby gave an oral presentation on work at UKAEA on construction of Gaussian Process based surrogate models of the properties of core turbulent instabilities in spherical tokamaks at the 5th International Conference on Data Driven Plasma Science (ICDDPS-5) at UC Berkeley in the US. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://na.eventscloud.com/website/63026/home/ |
| 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 | Outwood School Career Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Outwood School Career Event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | OxLEP Careers Festival |
| 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 | I've lived my dream today. I lived it yesterday, And I'll be living yours tomorrow. So don't look at me that way! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Oxford Science and Ideas Festival- Art of Fusion |
| 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 | Oxford Science and Ideas Festival- Art of Fusion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Oxford Science and Ideas Festival- Interactive Day |
| 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 | Oxford Science and Ideas Festival- Interactive Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Pannel member for Fuel Cycle Road-mapping workshop |
| 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 | I was invited to be a panel member for a break-out session covering cryogenics and isotope separation systems, pulling together a list of technologies which need to be better understood to progress past the "valley of death". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://app.swapcard.com/event/fuel-cycle-technology-development-roadmap |
| 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 | PhD Open day and strategy review meeting |
| 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 | 10 key academics from various universities that Tritium Fuel Cycle division collaborate with are regularly invited to discuss the direction, strategy and potential collaborations for our research programme. This resulted in a draft strategy document which will be finalised at the end of FY 25/26. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
| 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 | Poster presentation by T. Nunn at Neurips-2022 GP workshop with accepted paper. |
| 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 | UKAEA computing apprentice Timothy Nunn had a paper accepted to Neurips-2022 and gave a poster presentation at the workshop on Gaussian Processes and Spatio-Temporal modelling on the use of Bayesian Optimisation to optimise the design of toroidal field coils in fusion reactors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/workshop/49994#wse-detail-56466 |
| Description | Presenation at TOFE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | ~500 people attended TOFE in Madison, Wisconsin. I presented to a room of approximately 60 people on Tritium analytics and the design and build activities around HERA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Presentation on UKAEA GP modelling activities at 2024 BOUT++ workshop at LLNL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a presentation at the 2024 BOUT++ workshop at LLNL on Gaussian Process surrogate modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentation to Fusion CDT PhD programme candidates on the general considerations and foreseen challanges associated with the development of DEMO Design Criteria for in-vessel components. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Fusion CDT PhD programme candidates on the general considerations and foreseen challanges associated with the development of DEMO Design Criteria for in-vessel components. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Presentations / engagement with UK High Temperature Power Plant forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations / engagement with UK High Temperature Power Plant forum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Presenting at KIT Fusion Technology Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presenting at KIT Fusion Technology Summer School |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Primary School Materials Session |
| 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 | Primary School Materials Session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Primary school materials workshop |
| 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 | Primary school materials workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Programme committee member International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials |
| 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 | Appointed programme committee member International Workshop on Hydrogen Isotopes in Fusion Reactor Materials. Review abstracts and plan programme for workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | RADLab tours to general public, private fusion, academics, other industry. Average of 5 tours per month, 10 people per tour |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | RADLab tours to general public, private fusion, academics, other industry. Average of 5 tours per month, 10 people per tour |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | Robot Racing (IF Oxford) |
| 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 | Robot Racing (IF Oxford) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Rotherham advertiser visit to FTF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Rotherham advertiser visit to FTF |
| 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 | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition |
| 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 | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SELA Staff FTF Tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | SELA Staff FTF Tour |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SHU Visit to FTF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | SHU Visit to FTF |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SOFE 2023 Oral presentation on WP-DIV limiter HIVE testing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SOFE 2023 Oral presentation on WP-DIV limiter HIVE testing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | STEP 'aspiration assembley' series |
| 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 | STEP 'aspiration assembley' series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | STEP 'aspiration assembley' series |
| 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 | STEP 'aspiration assembley' series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | STEP 'aspiration assembley' series |
| 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 | STEP 'aspiration assembley' series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | STEP Community event |
| 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 | STEP Community event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | STEP Community event |
| 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 | STEP Community event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | STEP community event |
| 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 | STEP community event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | School Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Think Like An Engineer at University of Sheffield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Secondary school Sun Dome sessions |
| 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 | Secondary school Sun Dome sessions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Series of workshops in the RADLab as part of Fusion Engineering Academy |
| 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 | Series of workshops in the RADLab as part of Fusion Engineering Academy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Sheffield Park Academy Ambitions day (careers fair) |
| 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 | Sheffield Park Academy Ambitions day (careers fair) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | St Giles (Special Educational Needs) school |
| 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 | St Giles (Special Educational Needs) school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Star Makers showing @ FOSAC |
| 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 | Star Makers showing @ FOSAC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Star Soup (IF Oxford) |
| 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 | Star Soup (IF Oxford) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Supervision of 2 SEPnet students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A. Perera supervised two SEPnet students to work on summer placement projects: Austen Wallis (postgraduate), 24th June - 20th September 2024 (12 weeks with 1 week break) Developing a Neural Network Emulator for Fast Particle Pressure Prediction Ryan Ursell (undergraduate), 24th June - 30th August 2024 (10 weeks straight) Data Filtering and Dimensionality Reduction for Training a Neural Network Emulator |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://sepnet.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Talk at ICG-EAC annual meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at ICG-EAC annual meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk at ICG-EAC annual meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at ICG-EAC annual meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| Description | Talk at Turing Institute group on physics informed machine learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | G. Antonucci gave a presentation on time parallel methods to a group of researchers at the Turing Institute (TI). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Teacher Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Teacher Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | TechWorks (IF Oxford) |
| 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 | TechWorks (IF Oxford) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | UK machine learning for nuclear physics new working group |
| 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 | UK machine learning for nuclear physics new working group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 | Uni of Sheffield Careers fair |
| 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 | Uni of Sheffield Careers fair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| 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 of Sheffield STEM Fair |
| 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 | University of Sheffield STEM Fair |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | Various meetings exposing quantum tech companies on fusion challenges |
| 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 | Various meetings exposing quantum tech companies on fusion challenges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Various meetings with Quantum Hubs to understand quantum tech and make links with potential use cases across fusion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Various meetings with Quantum Hubs to understand quantum tech and make links with potential use cases across fusion |
| 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 Amentum in Warrington |
| 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 | Meeting held with Amentum to discuss the challenges of measuring tritium in molten breeders. Good discussion around their experience with handling molten salts and metals, and our experience with the trtiitum aspects and our needs in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Visit to Central Laser Facility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues visited the Central Laser Facility to discuss collaboration potential for the measurement of tritium. It was a good discussion, with both sides coming away with a better understanding of the challenges - either with laser based measurements, or with dealing with tritium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Visit to Edinburgh University Pyrochemical Research Facility |
| 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 | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with the team at the Pyrochemical Research Facility to discuss the handling of molten salts and the challenges of measuring tritium. Outcome was the agreement to jointly fund a PhD on the topic of tritium in molten salts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Waverley Junior Academy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Waverley Junior Academy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Waverley Junior Academy |
| 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 | Waverley Junior Academy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Waverley Junior Academy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Waverley Junior Academy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 | Work Expereince - Week 1 |
| 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 | Work Expereince - Week 1 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Work Expereince - Week 2 |
| 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 | Work Expereince - Week 2 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 at Liverpool Maths School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A 2 hour workshop was provided on computational science & engineering in fusion to around 50 students at at Liverpool Maths School by 5 UKAEA Computing Division speakers. As a consequence, UKAEA were invited to propose 3 month industry projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://liverpoolmathsschool.org/ |
| Description | Workshop between UKAEA Plasma Diagnostics and leading academics in Quantum Imaging |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop between UKAEA Plasma Diagnostics and leading academics in Quantum Imaging |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| 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 | Year in Industry talks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Year in Industry talks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Description | primary school Sun Dome outreach |
| 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 | primary school Sun Dome outreach |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |