News and events

Find about about the latest activities our consortium members have been involved in.

Research visit to Idaho National Laboratory

Dr Kathryn George (pictured), from the UK Nuclear Innovation Programme in Recycle, has recently completed a three month research visit to Idaho National Laboratory in the USA. She has undertaken experiments on the impact of irradiation dose on the distribution of uranium, zirconium, ruthenium and iodine in advanced PUREX conditions with the assistance of INL scientists Dr Dean Peterman and Dr Peter Zalupski.

Centrifugal contactors successfully installed

The University of Leeds, under the guidance of Prof. Bruce Hanson, has successfully installed and commissioned a centrifugal contactor system of three contactors for testing of advanced PUREX processes. Research associate Alastair Baker (pictured) will operate this engineering rig for studies on, for example, tolerance of precipitates.

IEMPT meeting held in Manchester

The 15th Nuclear Energy Agency Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation was successfully hosted by National Nuclear Laboratory at Manchester from 30 September to 3 October 2018.

Over 140 delegates were in attendance with the meeting covering scientific and strategic/policy developments in the field of P&T and advanced nuclear fuel cycles. Numerous presentations were delivered from the UK Nuclear Innovation Programme in Recycle consortium. 

Second annual consortium meeting held

The second annual consortium meeting of the UK Nuclear Innovation Programme in Recycle was held in Manchester on the 5 October 2018.  An international peer review panel was held in conjunction with this meeting with expert representatives from USA, Japan and Russia praising the progress of the programme and providing advice for future plans.

First annual consortium meeting held

The first annual consortium meeting of the UK Nuclear Innovation Programme in Recycle was held at Lancaster House on the 13/14 December 2017. Over 20 people attended including representatives from BEIS, NIRO and Wood. Progress updates were provided from all WP leaders and numerous early-career researchers presented their work.