Showing 18 articles for: Nuclear
Nuclear designs on a low-carbon future
Paul Stein FREng and Sophie Macfarlane-Smith
Find out how small modular reactors will contribute to achieving net zero.
Manufacturing power stations
Harry Edwards, Adam Locke and Andrew Jackson
Small modular reactors that have components manufactured in factories and constructed onsite could offer a quicker and cheaper alternative to generating nuclear power
Time to re-evaluate nuclear risks?, Responses to: SMR letter and Synthetic diamonds
Professor Gregg Butler, Grace McGlynn, John Campbell OBE FREng, Professor Jason Smith, and Alan Kemp.
Health risks from nuclear accidents - fact or fiction?
Professor Gerry Thomas
Professor Gerry Thomas, Professor of Molecular Pathology at Imperial College London, thinks that the perceived health risks of exposure to radiation from nuclear power plants accidents are vastly overestimated.
Fusion turns to Engineering
Chris Warrick
The search for fusion energy has led to advances in remote handling, materials science, and plasma isolation chambers
Small Modular Reactors
Professor Richard Clegg and Professor Mamdouh El-Shanawany
A new generation of small, factory-built nuclear reactors can provide sources of power for areas which lack a supporting energy infrastructure
Lessons from Windscale's Nuclear Legacy
Peter Mann
Decommissioning work undertaken on the Windscale Piles and the Windscale Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor will provide important information for future nuclear installations
Nuclear Decommissioning 44 in the UK
Laurence Williams FREng
The former Chief Engineer of the UK’s decommissioning authority outlines the challenges facing the UK’snuclear clean-up
Perception and Reality
Dr Scott Steedman FREng
Scott Steedman says that engineers should take more of an active role in building trust in the nuclear debate