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EdF/EdF Energy The relationship with EDF continues with about £1.8M of current investment at Imperial College in nuclear projects. This is in a large part through the long-standing and highly successful High Temperature Centre which had its contract renewed in February 2015, guaranteeing its operation until at least 2018. Work also continues in nuclear fuel performance, reactor physics, non-destructive testing; and after a workshop, held in April 2015, we are beginning work on stress corrosion cracking of nuclear fuel dry store containers. Meanwhile, EDF continue to sponsor MEng and MSc students on the nuclear programmes through funding from the EDF Foundation. AWE Imperial College has historically had extensive links with AWE Aldermarston established largely through William Penney who was an academic in College in the 1930s before being AWE: 22nd July 2014 University Interactions in Engineering and Manufacturing Conference held in the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London. 97 http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nuclear-engineering
the UK representative on the Manhattan project and heading up the UK’s nuclear deterrent programme before returning as Rector from 1967- 73. There is an overarching Imperial/AWE Strategic Alliance Board of Management and extensive links (particularly with Physics) via the Institute for Shock Physics (ISP), the Centre for Inertial Fusion Studies (CIFS) and the Institute for Security Science and Technology (ISST). The links with Engineering have not been as strong and a policy of extending them has been instigated via a William Penney Fellowship to Bill Lee and the setting up of the Imperial-AWE Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Studies (CEMS) with Bill as its Director in 2013. This has led to more extensive interactions via MSc/MEng projects in Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Chemistry, support for kick-start projects in areas such as Additive Manufacture, ceramic/metal interface modelling and H transport in metals including funding for 9 PhDs and 3 PDRAs. AWE also provide support for William Penney Prizes for the best research projects in the Nuclear Engineering and Advanced Materials MScs. The CNE will work together with Hitachi to assist with the research, development and delivery of the next generation of boiling water reactors. NNL-Imperial Alliance The NNL-Imperial Working Group meets every three months to identify joint opportunities for researching, training and public engagement. Simon Walker is an NNL Fellow and Laurence Williams is a Visiting Senior Fellow at NNL. The key contact for Imperial at NNL is Richard Stainsby. Key areas for future collaboration are nuclear process engineering, reactor materials, reactor operation and safety, wasteforms development, and asset care. Hitachi-GE The CNE and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy are working together to assist the UK Industrial and Academic Research Communities to take ownership of Advanced Boiling Water Reactor Technology. The first Boiling Water Reactors in the UK are planned to be built at Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey after the completion of the UK Regulatory Process, and are expected to begin generating electricity in 2025 and will provide much needed low-carbon base load electricity. Centre for Nuclear Engineering <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2014-2016 98
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