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Category: Academic Innovator
Winner: South-West Nuclear Hub
Partners: University of Bristol; University of Oxford; Kyoto University; Sellafield Ltd; EDF Energy; Atkins; National Nuclear Laboratory…….

Supported by a £2.5m Catalyst Fund grant from HEFCE and £5m from the University of Bristol, the hub takes advantage of its proximity to a number of nuclear operations. These include the Magnox power station at Oldbury in Gloucestershire, decommissioning reactors at Berkeley, also Gloucestershire, Hinkley Point A in Somerset and Winfrith in Dorset, and the growing construction site for the new EPR reactor at Hinkley Point. Further afield but still within reach are another decommissioning power station at Trawsfynydd in Snowdonia and Wylfa on Anglesey. It also counts the nuclear fusion research centre at Culham in Oxfordshire, the Harwell research Centre and the nuclear submarine dismantling programme at Devonport as within its catchment area.

Bristol and Oxford universities are already linked by a joint nuclear research centre (NRC) and the hub leverages this collaboration. …….Each research theme has a senior academic lead coordinating activity and identifying potential connections with other universities, including Oxford and the nearby University of the West of England…….

The Nucleate centre is to be another collaboration, with partnerships between the University of Bristol, National laboratory and EDF Energy …….

Public engagement is also a key focus of the hub. It coordinates both national and regional outreach activities, which include a nuclear seminar series of public lectures. The hub acts as an independent gateway for promoting public understanding of nuclear energy, framing it within the context of climate change mitigation……..

The Headline sponsor for C2I2018 is Frazer-Nash Consultancy  https://www.theengineer.co.uk/academic-innovator-south-west-nuclear-hub/