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the UK representative on the Manhattan project<br />
and heading up the UK’s nuclear deterrent programme<br />
before returning as Rector from 1967-<br />
73.<br />
There is an overarching Imperial/AWE Strategic<br />
Alliance Board of Management and extensive<br />
links (particularly with Physics) via the Institute<br />
for Shock Physics (ISP), the Centre for Inertial<br />
Fusion Studies (CIFS) and the Institute for Security<br />
Science and Technology (ISST). The links<br />
with Engineering have not been as strong and<br />
a policy of extending them has been instigated<br />
via a William Penney Fellowship to Bill Lee and<br />
the setting up of the Imperial-AWE Centre for<br />
Engineering and Manufacturing Studies (CEMS)<br />
with Bill as its Director in 2013. This has led to<br />
more extensive interactions via MSc/MEng projects<br />
in Mechanical Engineering, Materials and<br />
Chemistry, support for kick-start projects in areas<br />
such as Additive Manufacture, ceramic/metal<br />
interface modelling and H transport in metals<br />
including funding for 9 PhDs and 3 PDRAs. AWE<br />
also provide support for William Penney Prizes<br />
for the best research projects in the Nuclear Engineering<br />
and Advanced Materials MScs.<br />
The CNE will work together with Hitachi to assist<br />
with the research, development and delivery of<br />
the next generation of boiling water reactors.<br />
NNL-Imperial Alliance<br />
The NNL-Imperial Working Group meets every<br />
three months to identify joint opportunities for<br />
researching, training and public engagement.<br />
Simon Walker is an NNL Fellow and Laurence<br />
Williams is a Visiting Senior Fellow at NNL.<br />
The key contact for Imperial at NNL is Richard<br />
Stainsby.<br />
Key areas for future collaboration are nuclear<br />
process engineering, reactor materials, reactor<br />
operation and safety, wasteforms development,<br />
and asset care.<br />
Hitachi-GE<br />
The CNE and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy are<br />
working together to assist the UK Industrial and<br />
Academic Research Communities to take ownership<br />
of Advanced Boiling Water Reactor Technology.<br />
The first Boiling Water Reactors in the UK are<br />
planned to be built at Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey<br />
after the completion of the UK Regulatory<br />
Process, and are expected to begin generating<br />
electricity in 2025 and will provide much needed<br />
low-carbon base load electricity.<br />
Centre for Nuclear Engineering <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2014-2016 98
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