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Alumni form start up company having met on the course!

5 July 2022

In 2019, Bertie and Tim founded Alectro, https://alectro.io/index.html a SaaS platform providing carbon emission insight to organisations. Alectro helps to analyse and interpret data ranging from the electricity used to the coffee people drink, and helps companies and organisations to supercharge their sustainability...

Congratulations to our Course Director

25 June 2020

Congratulations to our Course Director, Dr Eugene Shwageraus for his promotion to Reader in Nuclear Energy Systems Engineering.

Congratulations to Una Davies on her IET Award

16 June 2020

Many congratulations to Una Davies, PhD Student and former Nuclear Energy MPhil student on receiving her Postgraduate Research Award from The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Una's research focused on capturing multi physics effects in safety analysis of sodium-cooled fast reactors, and she is involved in a...

NE MPhil Course Visit in 2019

16 January 2020

Visit to Addenbrooke's Nuclear Medicine Department During the visit of the Nuclear Medicine Department at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, we were given the opportunity to see applications of nuclear sciences to healthcare. By far the thing which surprised us the most was how heavily reliant on physics and engineering modern...

Congratulations to Claire Collins, NE MPhil Student on her swimming achievement

6 November 2019

Congratulations to Claire Collins, Nuclear Energy MPhil Student, for achieving a University Record in the 100m breaststroke and Blues Times in the 50 and 100m breaststroke at the East Region Winter Championships.

Una Davies, PhD Student, Visit to China

6 November 2019

Una Davies, PhD Student, attended the 2nd RCM of the IAEA CRP on Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests last week in Beijing. 28 participants across 17 countries gathered to share their results for the blind phase of the calculations, before taking a tour of the CIAE facilities in downtown Beijing and a visit to the...

J D Lewins 2018 Prize Winner - Toni Kunchev

26 March 2019

Toni Kunchev has been awarded the JD Lewins Prize for the highest marks gained in the examinations. Toni was a Nuclear Energy MPhil Student on the course in 2017/18 and is now a PhD student with the CDT under Dr Eugene Shwageraus. Toni's PhD research focuses on the exploration of available computational methods to model...

Nuclear Energy MPhil Students Visit CCFE March 2019

20 March 2019

The students had an informative and enjoyable visit to CCFE in March, touring JET

Students' Visit CCFE March 2019

20 March 2019

Westminster Energy Forum on Nuclear Policy, Regulation and Markets

27 February 2019

Attending the Annual Review of Nuclear Policy, Regulation and Markets, hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills, was an excellent opportunity to see the current state of Nuclear Policy in the UK. The speakers were very knowledgeable on their subjects, talking on such points that included cybersecurity in nuclear power stations...