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»» 2015–17 S Walker, M Bluck, G Hewitt EPSRC, ‘Premature Oscillation-induced Critical Heat Flux’ (Premature OICHF), £112K. »» 2015-18 B Britton, Imperial College and Rolls-Royce, CASE Studentship (Simon Wyatt) £50K. »» 2015-18 B Britton, EPSRC Nuclear CDT and AWE, PhD Studentship (William White) £50K. »» 2015-18 WE Lee, L Vandeperre et al EPSRC UK-Japan Nuclear Research Call, with NC Hyatt (Sheffield University, PI) ‘Advanced Waste Management Strategies for High Dose Spent Absorbents’, £440k. »» 2015-18 M Wenman, Rolls-Royce and Nuclear Energy CDT, ‘Understanding Neutron Irradiation Embrittlement of Reactor Pressure (RPV) Steels’, £68K. »» 2015-19 S Walker, M Bluck, G Hewitt, EPSRC, Grace Time, £0.68M. »» 2016 B Britton, AWE, PhD funding for CDT studentship, £50K. »» 2016 M Wenman, EPSRC Responsive Mode Grant, with Rolls Royce, ANSTO, UNSW, NNL and CCFE and Oxford and Manchester universities, ‘Linking Microstructure to Neutron Irradiation Defects in Advanced Manufacture of Ferritic Steels’, £3.2M. »» 2015-18 WE Lee, EPSRC, with Ian Farnan (Cambridge, PI) and Phillip Frankel (Manchester), ‘Carbides for Future Fission Environments (CAFFE)’, £0.55M. »» 2015-18 M Lowe, P Cawley, F Cegla, and P Huthwaite, EPSRC, Rolls-Royce, and AMEC Foster Wheeler, ‘Integrated Ultrasonic Imaging for Inspection of Near-surface Defects in Safety-critical Components’, £375K. »» 2015-18 M Wenman, EdF and Nuclear Energy CDT, ‘Atmospheric Stress Corrosion Cracking of 316L Dry Fuel Container’, £65K. »» 2015-18 M Wenman, NNL and Nuclear Energy CDT, ‘Fuel Performance Modelling using Mixed Finite Element and Peridynamics Methods for Pelletcladding Interactions in Nuclear Fuel’, £55K. 61 http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nuclear-engineering
Publications The volume and quality of our published work continues to remain high both in journal papers, books and book chapters and conference proceedings. »» Ahmad NE, Jones JR, and Lee WE “Durability Studies of Simulated UK High Level Waste Glass,” MRS Symp. Proc. 1665 Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXXVII, Barcelona, Spain, 1665, pp. 291-96 (2014). »» Ahmad NE, Fearn S, Jones JR, and Lee WE “Preliminary Surface Study of Short Term Dissolution of UK High Level Waste Glass,” Procedia Materials Science 7, pp. 230-36 (2014). »» Ahn J, and Bluck M “Isogeometric Analysis of Fully Developed Magnetohydrodynamic Duct Flows”, Journal of Computational Physics (in press, 2016). »» Antusch S, Armstrong DEJ, Britton TB, et al “Mechanical and Microstructural Investigations of Tungsten and Doped Tungsten Materials Produced via Powder Injection Moulding” Nuclear Materials and Energy 4, pp. 22-31 (2015). »» Armstrong DEJ, and Britton TB “Effect of Dislocation Density on Improved Radiation Hardening Resistance of Nano-structured Tungsten-Rhenium”, Materials Science and Engineering 611, pp. 388-393 (2014). »» Arnold PL, Farnaby JH, Kaltsoyannis N, Mansell SM, Parsons S, and Prescimone A “Characterising Pressure-induced Uranium C-H Agostic Bonds,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, pp. 6735-6739 (2015). »» Arnold PL, Farnaby JH, Gardiner MG, and Love JB “Uranium(III) Coordination Chemistry and Oxidation in Flexible Small-Cavity Macrocycle”, Organometallics 34, pp. 6735-6739 (2015). »» Arnold PL, Farnaby JH, Gardiner MG, Love JB, and Stevens CJ “New Chemistry from an Old Reagent: Mono- and Dinuclear Macrocyclic Uranium(III) Complexes from [U(BH4)3(THF)2],” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, pp. 10219-10221 (2014). »» Azough F, Fan Z, Lowe MJS, Mark AF and Withers P “Investigation of the Elastic/ Crystallographic Anisotropy of Welds for Improved Ultrasonic Inspections,” Materials Characterization 98, pp. 47-53 (2014). »» Badalassi V, Giustini G, Murallidharan J, Niceno B, Sato Y, and Walker SP “Interface Tracking Based Evaluation Of Bubble Growth Rates In High Pressure Pool Boiling Conditions,” 16th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-16) (2015). »» Ball JA, Haynes TA, Shea JH, and Wenman MR “Modelling Pellet-clad Mechanical Interaction during Extended Reduced Power Operation in Bonded Nuclear Fuel,” J. Nucl. Mater., 465, pp. 280-292 (2015). Centre for Nuclear Engineering <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2014-2016 62
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