UClan bid farewell to Gyuhyeon Kim at the end of March 2017. Gyuhyeon, more commonly known to his friends and colleagues at UCLan as Kim, had been at the university for about 12 months working with Profs Bond/Eccles nuclear team. In this time Kim had developed composite materials such as ammonium phosphomolybdate incorporated into a […]
Some members of UCLan’s nuclear research team (Prof H Eccles, Dr Alistair Holdsworth, Mr Daniel Rowbotham, Mr Parthiv Kavi, Mr Sandeep Kadam, Dr Runjie Mao and Gyuhyeon Kim) visited Westinghouse Springfields Fuels Ltd. Following refreshments and an entertaining and informative presentation for the team’s tour guide they departed for the Oxide Fuel Complex. In this […]
Some of UCLan’s nuclear research team (Prof H Eccles, Dr Alistair Holdsworth, Mr Daniel Rowbotham and Dr Runjie Mao) visited EDf Heysham Power Station. Following a presentation on the history of nuclear power, EDf, and Heysham site the team visited Heysham 2 the last Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) to be built in England. The […]
Some of UCLan’s nuclear research team (Prof H Eccles, Dr Alistair Holdsworth, Mr Daniel Rowbotham, Mr Parthiv Kavi, Dr Runjie Mao and Gyuhyeon Kim ) visited Sellafield site to see spent fuel reprocessing and nuclear waste management plants. After an introduction to Sellafield Ltd the team. visited the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP), initially the receipt […]