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Collaborations, International<br />
and National Consortia<br />
The scope and complexity of the nuclear<br />
energy field means that knowledge,<br />
skills, and facilities are necessarily<br />
pooled and shared not only across and<br />
within academia, government, and industry,<br />
but also between borders. The<br />
CNE plays a prominent role in these collaborative<br />
enterprises, the most important<br />
of which are listed below.<br />
International<br />
Although the CNE is based in London, we have<br />
a presence across the globe. Since our last report,<br />
our researchers have travelled tens of<br />
thousands of miles to engage with our international<br />
partners and work closely with them to<br />
help solve the many challenges facing the nuclear<br />
energy sector.<br />
Imperial-UNSW/ANSTO<br />
CNE Representatives: Prof Bill Lee, Prof Robin Grimes, Dr<br />
Simon Walker, Dr Mark Wenman<br />
Following an initiative between Robin Grimes<br />
(Imperial) and Graham Davies, then Dean of<br />
Engineering (UNSW), and Lyndon Edwards<br />
(ANSTO), a Collaboration Agreement was established<br />
in April 2014. The Agreement was<br />
between UNSW and Imperial College and used<br />
funds provided by the Bill Tyree Foundation<br />
to support a PhD in the CNE, and to fund academics<br />
to teach and help develop an MSc programme<br />
in Nuclear Engineering at UNSW.<br />
Robin Grimes, Simon Walker and Mark Wenman<br />
have helped teach courses at UNSW (2014,<br />
2015), and from October 2014 a PhD in Wasteforms<br />
for Advanced Reprocessing Wastes supervised<br />
by Bill Lee (Imperial), David Gregg and<br />
Lou Vance (ANSTO), and David Waite (ANSTO) is<br />
currently underway.<br />
Other links include a visit by Wendy Timms<br />
(UNSW) to Imperial in September 2015, where<br />
she delivered a seminar on uranium mining. In<br />
addition, Robin Grimes’s group has provided<br />
Simon Middleburgh (ANSTO until early 2015)<br />
and Patrick Burr who recently joined UNSW as<br />
a Lecturer in Nuclear Engineering. Moreover,<br />
several CNE students have spent three months<br />
at ANSTO. In 2014 MSc Nuclear Engineering<br />
students Conor Galvin and Elizabeth Howett<br />
visited, and in 2015 MSc Nuclear Engineering<br />
student Alex Parnell and third-year MEng in Materials<br />
Science and Engineering student Robin<br />
Newman went across.<br />
DECOVALEX<br />
CNE Representative: Prof Robert Zimmerman<br />
The DECOVALEX project is an international research<br />
and model comparison collaboration for<br />
advancing the understanding and modelling of<br />
coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) and<br />
thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC)<br />
processes in geological systems. Prediction of<br />
these coupled effects is an essential part of the<br />
performance and safety assessment of geologic<br />
disposal systems for radioactive waste and<br />
spent nuclear fuel. The project has been conducted<br />
by research teams supported by a large<br />
number of radioactive-waste-management<br />
organizations and regulatory authorities. Research<br />
teams work collaboratively on selected<br />
modelling test cases, followed by comparative<br />
assessment of model results between different<br />
models. Through this collaborative work,<br />
in-depth knowledge has been gained of coupled<br />
THM and THMC processes associated with<br />
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