Annual Report

EPSRC ICO Centre for Doctoral
Training in Nuclear Energy
Overview
The CNE with the University of Cambridge
and The Open University was awarded
over £4M in 2014 by the EPSRC to set up
a Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in
Nuclear Energy.
Building on world-leading modelling and experimental
capabilities, the research performed in
the ICO Nuclear Energy CDT is enabling future reactors
to be developed, new reactors to be built
and operated more safely, and current reactors
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to operate for longer. At the same time ICO research
will support the clean-up and decommissioning
of the UK’s contaminated nuclear
sites and moves towards geological disposal in
the UK and world-wide. ICO research is keeping
the UK at the forefront of international programmes
on future reactors for electricity and
civil marine power. By doing so it is providing
highly skilled and motivated cohorts of PhDs
with a global outlook for the UK nuclear industry,
regulators, government and academia.
Structure
The CDT will train 62 PhD students in five cohorts
and is sponsored by EPSRC and the nuclear
industry and associated international
partners. The programme involves a one year
MRes in Nuclear Engineering at Imperial followed
by three years PhD study at either Imperial,
Cambridge or Open (CDT → MRes + PhD).
Students can select a PhD from the many projects
covering the whole fuel cycle listed on the
CDT website. The majority of projects are joint
ventures with industry. Our industrial partners
include among others: Rolls-Royce, AWE, EdF,
Hitachi (Japan), UNSW (Australia), Westinghouse
(USA), and NNL.
CDT Management and Committees
The CDT is managed by a CDT Committee, a
Management Board and an International Advisory
Board.
The CDT committee meets monthly and covers
the day-to-day business of the CDT. The committee
consists of:
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Bill Lee - CDT Director (Chair)
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Mike Bluck - CDT Deputy Director
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Ian Farnan - CDT Co-Director, Cambridge
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