Annual Report

the CNE team, attracting more students (especially
women) at all levels into nuclear engineering,
working more closely and so acquiring
more support from industry, from Government
and international collaborators as well as improving
our access to active facilities.
Prof Bill Lee
Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering –March 2016
Prof Bill Lee: director of the Centre for Nuclear
Engineering
continue our regular Management Committee
meetings, seminars, lunchtime lectures, and
hosting international workshops and visitors.
We continue to be successful in working with
industry partners: in particular Rolls-Royce,
EdF/EdF Energy, Hitachi-GE and AWE. We attract
significant research funding with a current portfolio
of over £38M including recent awards as
part of the EPSRC-funded CAFFE consortia with
Cambridge, Oxford and Manchester universities;
with AWE in Additive Manufacturing, and
grants with Oxford, Manchester and New South
Wales Universities, Rolls-Royce, ANSTO, NNL
and CCFE. We continue to play on the global
stage, a recent highlight being the funding of
two UK-Japan EPSRC-MEXT proposals to Chris
Pain and Bill Lee for collaborations with the
Universities of Tokyo, Kyushu and Tohoku.
The key areas where we plan to concentrate our
efforts in the next 5 years include in building
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