Events

Time

LTB

LTC

10:30 - 11:00

Registration

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11:00 - 11:10

Welcome

11:10 - 11:45

Keynote 1: Dr Paul Nevitt (NNL) - UK nuclear, what does the future hold?

11:45 - 12:05

Plenary: Dr. Lee Mortimer and Dr. Alastair Baker (Leeds) – Overview of Nuclear research in SCAPE

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12:05 - 13:00

Speed networking event (SCAPE Foyer)

13:00 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:00

Nick Bramah (Lancaster) - Studies into the effect of insoluble fission products on the generation of Ag2+ for the dissolution of MOx fuel

Hasnain Gulzar (Liverpool) - Unification of Physics with Machine Learning for simulating Nuclear Reactor Core

14:00 - 14:15

Megan Pritchard (Manchester) - Development of high-temperature-steam resistant UN via the addition of UB2

Madinka Bright Mweetwa (Bangor) - Evaluation of safety limits and margins for a soluble boron-free small modular reactor core

14:15 - 14:30

Stephen Ogezo (Lancaster) - The Role of Mass Transfer and Chemical Complexation Kinetics in Advanced Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

Hannah Tipping (Bristol) - Simulating thermal transient damage from fusion plasma excursions using combined plasma-laser exposure

14:30 - 14:45

Cintia Leite Goncalves (Bangor) - Conductivity of Uranium Nitride with Impurities and Fission Products

Sam Rohunsingh (Leeds) - Deploying Small Modular Reactors: The licensing and financing implications

14:45 - 15:00

Stephen Byrne (Lancaster) - Safe Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel under Wet Storage Conditions

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15:00 - 15:20

Coffee Break

15:25 - 15:40

Bibi Shehrbano (Lancaster) - Understanding Ruthenium Volatility in Nuclear Fuel Recycling

Ewan Woodbridge (Bristol) - The Utilization of Legacy Mine Sites as Training Environments for Radiological Emergency Response Preparedness

15:40 - 15:55

Brendan Green (Lancaster) - Neutronic Analogues for Water Detection Studies in Spent Nuclear Fuel

Geraldyne Ule Duque (Bangor) - Sensitivity analysis for radionuclide production data in nuclear reactors

15:55 - 16:10

Hannah Lane (Lancaster) - An exploration of the contamination of AISI 304L stainless steel when corroded in nitric acid-based spent nuclear fuel reprocessing dissolver simulant

Lauren Walker (Manchester) - Improved quantification of f-element fission products

16:10 - 16:25

Tom Shaw (Leeds) - Efficient Manufacture of DEHiBA Through Industry 4.

Yannick Verbelen (Bristol) - Decentralised radioisotope production using open source proton accelerators

16:25 - 16:55

Poster - Flash Presentations

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16:55 - 17:00

End of Day 1

17:00 - 17:40

MULTIForm lab facilities tour

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18:30 - 19:00

Arrive at The Faversham

Time

LTB

LTC

08:30 - 10:00

Poster session (tea, coffee, pastries)

10:00 - 10:35

Keynote 2: Jon Smith-Moorhouse, B.Eng M.Sc (RR) - Mobilising and​ evolving the workforce required to support the UKs growing nuclear sector

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10:40 - 10:55

Jack Rolfe (Lancaster) - Disposal MOX – Immobilising the UK’s Plutonium Inventory

Jake Smith (Manchester) - Improving the technology readiness levels of hydrogels for deployment in decommissioning scenarios

10:55 - 11:10

George Cook (Manchester) - Use of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for characterization in underwater environments

Aron Webster (Leeds) - Cost-Optimal Cutting and Packing for Decommissioning Nuclear Structures

11:10 - 11:25

Emine Comert (Liverpool) - Irradiation study of the effects of doping Nb2O5 and SrO on ZrO2 in ceramic pyrochlore as waste matrices

Jiaxin Hu (Leeds) - Enhanced removal of cesium from clay minerals by capacitive deionization process with surfactant

11:25 - 11:40

Jack Morris (NNL) - Cements for a Net-Zero World: Impact on the Encapsulation of Nuclear Waste

Tom King (Bristol) - Investigating Molten Lead Corrosion of Steel and Other Nuclear Specification Alloys and Coatings

11:40 - 11:55

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Faisal Altamimi (Manchester) - Cobalt Ion Irradiation for Simulating Graphite Damage and Contamination

11:55 - 12:40

Lunch

12:40 - 13:15

Keynote 3: Dr. Matthew Jackson (SL) - Translating from PhD to industry

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13:20 - 13:35

Md Prodhan (Leeds) - Population balance modelling of solid particle flocculation through a pipe/channel'

Mariia Zimina (Bristol) - Neutron irradiated materials studies: challenges and prospects

13:35 - 13:50

Gamuchirai Sibanda (Leeds) - Simulation and Imaging of Hydrogen Bubble Release Dynamics in Granular Nuclear Waste Material

Archana Prasad (Bangor) - Evaluating the impact of magnetohydrodynamics on the thermophysical properties of liquid lead

13:50 - 14:05

David Batty (Liverpool) - Radiation Aware Navigation and Planning for Exploration of Hazardous Semi-Known Environments Using a Mobile Robot Platform

Zihao Wang (Oxford) - Stress corrosion cracking behavior of 316L with in-situ diffusible hydrogen charging in high-temperature water

14:05 - 14:20

Alex Carpenter (Bristol) - Automated Object Detection and Position Extraction of Legacy Nuclear Waste Using a Robotic Manipulator

Jessica Marshall (Warwick) - Microhardness and EBSD depth profiles of radiation-induced changes in radiation-dense cWC and RSBs

14:20 - 14:35

Ashley Dickson (Lancaster) - Radiation damage in YBa2Cu3O7 high temperature superconductors: an ab initio molecular dynamics study

Chandra Bhusan Yadav (Bristol) - Characterization of Irradiation Damage in Fe-5Cr and Fe-3Cr: A Study on the Effects of Chromium Content, Dose Rate, & Temperature

14:35 - 15:00

Coffee

15:00 - 15:20

Prizes and final words

15:20

Conference closes