Events

10:00 - 10:30

Registration

10:30 - 10:40

Welcome address, including remembrance of Prof Bruce Hanson

10:40 - 11:05

Keynote 1: Dr Nicholas Smith (NNL) Opportunities within NNL for Postdocs

11:05 – 11:25

Dr Alastair Baker (Leeds) - MULTIForm NNUF, Multiphase fluid flows in nuclear systems National Nuclear Users Facility

11:25 – 11:45

Dr Lakshay Jain (Liverpool) Estimating the thermal feedback effects in a zero-power reactor for chloride-based molten salt reactors 

11:45 – 12:05

Dr Miguel Pineda (UCL) Modeling CeO₂ nanoparticle aggregation and dissolution in H₂O₂: Implications for PuO₂ nuclear fuel debris retrieval 

12:05 - 12:45

Speed networking session, sponsored by the Nuclear Institute

12:45 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 13:55

Keynote 2: Dr Marco Colombo (Sheffield) Careers in simulation and numerical modelling

13:55 - 14:15

Abdul Samad Rana (Leeds) CFD Modelling of the Hydrodynamic Characteristics in an Unbaffled Vortex Reactor

14:15 - 14:35

Dr Hamish Dow (Strathclyde) Adaptive lighting for the inspection of concrete structures

14:35 - 14:55

Dr Colleen Reynolds (Imperial) Solute-dislocation interactions in Zr alloys modeled with hybrid quantum mechanics/machine learning (QMML) and universal machine learning interatomic potentials 

14:55 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 15:40

Keynote 3: Dr Elanor Murray (Cyclife EDF) Careers in Consultancy

15:40 – 16:00

Dr Lee Mortimer (Leeds)  Machine learning for nuclear waste flow prediction and characterisation 

16:00 - 16:20

Dr Ban Lee (Lancaster) Breaking down siloes: rethinking organisational learning in nuclear decommissioning

16:20 - 16:40

Dr Yannick Verbelen (Bristol) State-of-the-art in commercial nuclear power generation, and the UK’s nuclear future

16:40 – 16:55

University of Leeds address and close of Day 1

17:00 – 18:00

MULTIForm NNUF tour of capablities and labs

19:00

Conference dinner at The Faversham (arrive from 18:30, food served at 19:00)

09:30 – 09:55

Keynote 4: Dr Jake Surman (Env. Agency) Nuclear regulation: research and careers; making the link

09:55 – 10:15

Takinami Yasunobu (Saitama) Case study of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster

possibility of using AI robots based on case analysis of unit 1 isolation condenser

10:15 – 10:35

Dr Adam Canner (Cyclife EDF) From academia to consultancy – an early career journey 

10:35 – 11:10

Extended coffee break with poster session

11:10 - 11:35

Keynote 5: Dr Alex Theodosiou (Manchester) Career development story: from postdoc to lecturer

11:35 – 11:55

Dr Merve Kuman (Sheffield) Optimization of boron incorporation into metakaolin-based geopolymer for enhanced nuclear waste encapsulation 

11:55 – 12:15

Dr Angelo Battistini (Imperial) A peridynamics-driven fission products diffusion model for TRISO coated particle fuel 

12:15 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:20

Dr Tom Robshaw (Leeds) – Isn’t it ionic? Lithium-6 enrichment by solvent extraction to support UK fusion development

13:20 - 13:40

Dr Byoungkwan Kim (Sheffield) Immobilisation of radioactive spent ion exchange resins using phosphate-based geopolymer waste forms  

13:40 - 14:00

Dr Ryan Stroud (Imperial) Defects and impurity properties of VN precipitates in ARAFM steels using a universal machine learning potential 

14:00 - 14:20

Coffee break

14:20 – 14:45

Keynote 6: Dr Lewis Blackburn (Sheffield) Fellowships, what are they?

14:45 – 15:05

Dr Nour Ali (Northumbria) Utilizing novelly-synthesised amide-functionalized camphor-derived N-donor ligands for enhancing trivalent minor actinide selective solvent extraction

15:05 – 15:25

Dr Aiden Peakman (Amentum) High-fidelity fuel modelling, AI-powered core design and space-based micro-reactor research within Amentum

15:25 - 15:40

Prizes, handover invitation and final words

15:40

Conference close